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Original fileafter Hendrick Goltzius
The engraving depicts the monarch standing in highly detailed plate armor, holding a commander's baton and resting his left hand on his sword hilt. He stands beside a table draped with a cloth bearing a coat of arms, upon which sits his plumed helmet. The portrait is accompanied by Italian text describing his short but military-intensive reign and his death in 1660.
234 TEATRO BELGICO Murte del Ré di Suetia. 1660. CARLO Gustavo Rè di Suetia in una sua età di 37. anni e cinque di Regno se ne passò all' altra vita li 22. di Febraro in Rossemburg; Prencipe che in un lustro havea raccolto più Palme, e Lauri di quello che haveano fatto altri in un secolo, e fatto versar più lagrime, e fan- gue, di quello che fecero mai guerreggiando più Guerrieri in più Lu- stri.
Translation
234 BELGIAN THEATER Death of the King of Sweden. 1660. CHARLES Gustav, King of Sweden, at the age of 37 and five years of Reign, passed to the other life on the 22nd of February in Gothenburg; a Prince who in a lustrum had gathered more Palms and Laurels than others had done in a century, and caused more tears and blood to be shed than ever did many Warriors waging war in many Lustrums.
Object
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Engraving
portrait
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · CC0
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.521140
Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication
4224 × 5732 px
692e3b5b5284f2aa98714059c2e3b611a39e636d
December 17, 2019
March 23, 2026
Linked Data
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