ILLVSTRIS PRINCEPS ET DOMINVS DOMINVS HEINRICVS COMES WIRTEMBERGIAE ET MONTISPELIGARDI ETC c.1764
Etching | 21.0 x 17.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 608442.j
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Etching of Henry, Court of Württemberg. Half length with plumed cap, beard, and armour. The Count is pictured standing, holding a sword in left hand and a mace in right, within an arched border, with coat of arms above and Latin inscription on entablature below.
From a series of ten portraits of early Counts of Württemberg, with their likenesses taken from a series of statues in the Stiftskirche, Stuttgart. Plate from Christian Friedrich Sattler's history Allgemeine Geschichte Würtenbergs und dessen angränzender Gebiethe und Gegenden, nach den merkwürdigsten Veränderungen in Staats-Kirchen und Burgerlichen Wesen (1764).
For the portraits of the Counts from Ulrich I to Henry, Count of Württemberg see RCIN 608442.a-j. -
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21.0 x 17.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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