Plate D: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

An etched plate showing the interior of a Gothic church, with a crowd of robed figures processing toward a central platform and altar. On the right, a ground plan labelled with letters A to H and a Latin inscription explains the ceremonial layout. Fine engraved lines give the architecture and crowd a dense, orderly texture.

Look closer: The letter D in a small box marks the plate in the bottom-right corner.

Artist

Anonymous, German, 17th century

Date

1612

Medium

Etching

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3632 × 2380 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959