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Heinrich II (Holy Roman Emperor) c.1844-1847
Hand coloured engraving | 39.6 x 27.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 612492

Carl Georg Gerhardt (b. 1810)
Heinrich II (Holy Roman Emperor) c.1844-1847
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Hand coloured engraving of Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. Full length portrait inclined left, wearing a crown and mantle fastened at the shoulder while carrying a spear. The model of a building sits to the right of his feet. The arch shaped portrait sits within a rectangular frame inscribed in German, 'HEINRICH II.' The print has been taken from a book titled Die Deutschen Kaiser, published by S. Schmerber c.1844-47. The book is illustrated by printed portraits of Holy Roman Emperors, all after painted portraits completed in the nineteenth-century and hung in Frankfurt's Kaisersaal, a room of the City Hall once used for the coronation of Holy Roman Emperors. Queen Victoria's collection mark can be found at the bottom centre of the page.
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Hand coloured engraving
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39.6 x 27.0 cm (sheet of paper)
39.1 x 25.8 cm (platemark)
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