This print is a combination of two designs. The frame originally served as Goltzius' title page for a series consisting of sixteen sheets on the cardinal virtues and vices, in this print the title is replaced with 'Theatrum Principum'. In the oval, a second plate is printed on the paper: a copy in mirror image after the portrait of Henri III, King of France, engraved by Hieronymus Wierix in 1586., Theatrum Principium , print maker: Hendrick Goltzius, Hendrick Goltzius, print maker: Hieronymus Wierix, c. 1587 - c. 1620, paper, engraving, h 159 mm × w 110 mm

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