An etching with engraving of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor. A head and shoulder length portrait facing right, wearing a ruff, armour and the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The portrait sits within an elaborate frame composed of putto, eagles and armour. At the bottom of the plate is a pedestal bearing a Latin inscription which begins 'MAXIMILIANVS II. FERDINANDI I FIL. NATVS KAL...', alongside the artist and engraver's signatures, 'P. Soutman Invenit Effigiavit et Excud. Cum Privil. P. van Sompel Sculpsit 1644.' The plate forms part of "Effigies imperatorum domus Austriacae", a set of thirteen large portraits depicting monarchs of the House of Habsburg, beginning with Rudolph I. The plate has been trimmed.