Emperor Maximilian, 1520, Etching and engraving, plate: 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. ( x cm) (trimmed within plate line except

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Emperor Maximilian, 1520, Etching and engraving, plate: 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. ( x cm) (trimmed within plate line except at bottom, where trimmed to line), Prints, Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, Leiden ca. 1494–1533 Leiden), This sensitive portrayal of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, produced in commemoration of his death in 1519, is one of Lucas's most technically innovative works. It demonstrates how, for the first time in Northern Europe, an artist combined the techniques of etching and engraving

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