Death of an Emperor
[CHARLES VII.]
‘Trauer- und Todten-Gerüste, worauf erblasset ruhet, der allerdurchlauchtigst großmächtigst und unüberwindlichste Römische Kayser Carolus der VII. zu allen Zeiten Mehrer des Reichs &c. &c. welcher nach Göttlichem Rath-Schluß im 48. Jahr Dero Alters diese Zeitlichkeit verlassen, und nach kurtzer Kranckheit den 20. Januarii Abends zwischen 9. und 10. Uhr, seine Seele in die Hände seines Erlößers großmüthigst übergeben. Anno 1745.’ Augsburg, Johann Andreas Steißlinger, [1745].
Broadside (c. 389 x 301 mm), with large copper-engraving at head (170 x 271 mm, ‘Augspurg zu finden bey I. A. Steislinger, Jünger’) and letterpress text in two columns below, typographic ornaments; creased where folded, slight darkening from an old guard verso, but generally well preserved.
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‘Trauer- und Todten-Gerüste, worauf erblasset ruhet, der allerdurchlauchtigst großmächtigst und unüberwindlichste Römische Kayser Carolus der VII. zu allen Zeiten Mehrer des Reichs &c. &c. welcher nach Göttlichem Rath-Schluß im 48. Jahr Dero Alters diese Zeitlichkeit verlassen, und nach kurtzer Kranckheit den 20. Januarii Abends zwischen 9. und 10. Uhr, seine Seele in die Hände seines Erlößers großmüthigst übergeben. Anno 1745.’
An attractive broadside mourning the death of Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Elector of Bavaria, with a large engraving showing his body lying in repose.
Charles VII (1697–1745) reigned as Elector of Bavaria from 1726 until his death and as King of Bohemia between 1741 and 1743; elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1742, he was the first and only Wittelsbach to bear the title since the fourteenth century. The lengthy poem mourns his death in exaggerated terms but is quiet on his achievements; in his short reign as Emperor he was twice driven out of Bavaria by Austrian armies, and he retook his capital Munich only with the assistance of Frederick II of Prussia, returning only three months before his death. He was, however, more successful as an artistic and architectural patron, completing Schloss Nymphenburg and making substantial additions to the Residenz. He is buried in the Theatinerkirche.
No copies traced outside Germany.