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Elisabeth Christina   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Georg Paul Busch  (1682–1759)  wikidata:Q21349494
 
Alternative names
George Paul Busch
Description German engraver
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 21 October 1759 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Berlin
Work period 1712 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q21349494
After Johann Gottfried Auerbach  (1697–1753)  wikidata:Q1694076
 
After Johann Gottfried Auerbach
Alternative names
Johann Gotfried Auerbach; John Gottfried Auerbach; Auerbach
Description German painter and etcher
Date of birth/death 28 October 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 5 August 1753 / 3 August 1753 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Mühlhausen Vienna
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q1694076
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Elisabeth Christina
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An etching with stipple technique of Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. A half length portrait with her face inclined right, wearing a hairpiece, bejewelled dress and mantle. The portrait sits within an oval frame decorated with two putti and a crown. Beneath the frame is a German inscription beginning 'Elisabetha Christina Romische Kayserin... Beneath the image are the painter's mark, printmaker's mark and the inscription 'XVIII ENTREVUE'. The plate has been trimmed.Engraving of Rudolf I, Holy Roman Emperor. Half length portrait turned left, wearing a crown and bejewelled mantle fastened at the chest. The portrait sits within an oval border featuring the Latin inscription 'RVDOLPHVS I. DEI GRATIA ROM. IMPERATOR SEMPER. AVGVSTVS'. Beneath the image is the Latin inscription 'Stirpis ego AUSTRIACAE radix Generosa RUDOL, Dux Habsburgiadum Nomen ad astra tuli. Inclyta posteritas toto dominatitur Orbe. Qua genus lapeti spectat Vtrum Polum.'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.Etching of Frederick IV, Duke of Austria. Head and shoulder length portrait in profile, facing right, wearing a crown and mantle fastened across the chest. The portrait sits within an ornate oval frame, decorated with putti, drums, armour, weapons and two eagles holding laurel wreaths in their beaks. Beneath the portrait is a plinth featuring a Latin inscription beginning 'FRIDERICVS IV. ALBERTI I ABNEP. RODOLPHI I ADN. NATVS IX KAL. OCTOB. MCCCCXV...' At the bottom of the plate is the artist and engraver's mark, 'P. Soutman Invenit Effigiauit et Excud. Cum Privil. P. van Sompel Sculp. 1644.' The plate has been trimmed.

Date circa 1711-1756
Medium stipple engraving
Dimensions height: 21.2 cm (8.3 in); width: 14.2 cm (5.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,21.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,14.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Source/Photographer Royal Collection RCIN 613595

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