Emperor Charles VII on his deathbed in the presence of his family and members of the court, 1745, print, etching and copperplate engraving from two plates (image and text plate), sheet: 48 × 38.8 cm, [r.b.] 'Cum Privilegio Sac. Rome. Imp. Vicariatus. et C.P.P.S.V.' (below the illustration); [M.] 'An excellent monarch dies, a great emperor, who indeed acquires much fame in a short time, | What wonder when everyone grieves for him, since he loved his own and you loved him most! | That's why his departure from the world is as hard and difficult as this sheet, my reader! imagines.'
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