[Otto, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and his consorts Catharina Ursula of Baden-Durlach, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel and Agnes Magdalena of Anhalt-Dessau, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel] 1638
Engraving | 30.0 x 39.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 610707
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Engraving of Otto, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and his consorts Catharina Ursula of Baden-Durlach, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel and Agnes Magdalena of Anhalt-Dessau, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel. Whole length figures, with Otto depicted standing at the centre between the figures of his two consorts.
The Landgrave is pictured with short hair, lace collar, embroidered doublet, and sash, standing with his arms linked with those of his first consort Catharina Ursula of Baden-Durlach to the left and Agnes Magdalena of Anhalt-Dessau to the tight. To the far left a skeleton holding an hourglass and a spear beside the figure of Catharina Ursula of Baden-Durlach, and with small dogs on either side with a vase of flowers on a table to the right. With Latin inscriptions on cartouches below. A plate from Monumentum sepulcrale, ad Illustrissimi Celsissimique Principis ac Domini, Dn. Mauritii Hassiae Landgravii ... memoriam Gloriae Sempiternam Erectum (1638). -
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30.0 x 39.6 cm (sheet of paper)
26.4 x 36.0 cm (image)
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