Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Nicholas II Print marked '14' upper left

Print marked '14' upper left

aged 83 years

Plate 31 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

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Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor Nicholas II Print marked '14' upper leftCharles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, (1816). Crowned King Charles I of Spain in 1516, he was the founder of the Habsburg dynasty. He became Holy Roman Emperor in 1519. A print from Fifteen Splendid Portraits of Royal Personages, engraved in mezzotinto by Richard Earlom, Charles Turner and R Dunkarton, printed by J McCreery, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street, London, 1816.