1721 Copper Engraving Portrait Child Ferdinandus Ferdinand IV King Romans EUM1 XGOB2 XGCC5C08 zz10000

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1721 Copper Engraving Portrait Child Ferdinandus Ferdinand IV King Romans EUM1 XGOB2 XGCC5C08 zz10000This is an original 1721 black and white copper engraving of "Ferdinandus Ertzhertzog zu sterreich." This is a portrait of Ferdinand IV as a child. Ferdinand IV was King of the Romans, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia, and successor to the Holy Roman Throne, but died of smallpox at the age of twenty one, leaving his brother, Leopold I, as the heir to the Holy Roman thrown. The portrait is surrounded by a wonderful decorative motif mimicking classical