Plate I: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II
An etched scene of a large town square crowded with spectators on a raised wooden gallery, mounted riders and figures on foot in the foreground, and a tall building with timber-framed balconies and a heraldic shield behind them. Fine hatching describes the crowd and architecture.
Look closer: Small figures peering from the upper windows of the building at right.
- Artist
- Anonymous, German, 17th century
- Date
- 1612
- Medium
- Etching
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 3606 × 2385 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1612).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959