Etching of a crowded Gothic cathedral interior with a procession of richly dressed figures at right beneath ornate arches.

Plate H: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

An etched view of a tall Gothic church interior, its nave filled with a dense crowd of spectators on the left. At right, a richly dressed procession gathers beneath pointed arches and a carved balcony, with a rail in the foreground. Fine parallel hatching models the stone columns and vaulted ceiling.

Look closer: A small figure in an upper window of the central Gothic arch, near the rose window.

Artist: Anonymous, German, 17th century
Date: 1612
Medium: Etching
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 3593 × 2341 px

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

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