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[Albert VII, archduke of Austria] Albertus Card. Archidux Austr. Belgicar. Provinciar. Gubernator.
[Albert VII, archduke of Austria] Albertus Card. Archidux Austr. Belgicar. Provinciar. Gubernator. 1597.
O.Vaenius inven. G. Velden f.
[c.1619.]
Engraving. 485 x 365mm (19 x 14¼"), large margins. Folds, wear in margins.
Portrait of Albert VII (1559-1621), joint-sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands with his wife Isabella from 1598-1621, a cardinal and briefly archduke of Austria in 1619 before abdicating in favour of Ferdinand II. Although he is dressed as a cardinal the use of his ducal title suggests the print was published for his brief reign.
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[Nuño Salido, tutor of the Seven Infantes of Lara, sees evil omens for them in this war]
[Nuño Salido, tutor of the Seven Infantes of Lara, sees evil omens for them in this war] Resueltos los siete Infantes, caminan a la placa de armas [...] [parallel text in latin]
[Antonio Tempesta after Otto van Veen, 1612]
Etching, sheet 185 x 205mm (7¼ x 8"). Creased; plate number scratched out (in circle lower centre); later impression. Two stains in title.
Nuño Salido (on the right) warns the Seven Infantes against going to war. Athena, Greek goddess of warfare on the right. Plate twenty from a set of forty depicting the legend of the Infantes of Lara, who lived in the tenth century, and which relates how these seven brothers were betrayed by their uncle and slain by the Moors but were afterwards avenged by their half-brother, the Bastard Mudarra, son of the Lord of Lara and a Moorish lady.
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