The battle for the imperial crown, 1742, 's Waerelds Hoogmoed, or Ydele Zugt tot Glorie: Displayed by way of a Tournooy game (title on object), Original seventeenth-century representation of a fairground attraction in the form of a kind of merry-go-round in which two men mounted on horses try to insert a ring. Used here as a political allegory of the imperial election at the Imperial Diet in Frankfurt in January 1742. On the page below the scene an explanation in a verse in 2 columns., print, print maker: anonymous, publisher: weduwe Jacobus van Egmont en Zoon, (mentioned on object), print

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