the engraving series by Elias Widemann

In 1646, Elias Widemann of Augsburg (1619-1652) published a series of engravings in Pozsony (Bratislava, Slovakia), which contained the portraits of a hundred nobles who were considered to be the greatest supporters of the Habsburg house. Only some of these nobles were Hungarians. In 1652, however, Widemann published another series of a hundred sheets in Vienna, which included only the portraits of Hungarian nobles, from the highest aristocrats to the castellans of frontier castles. The patron for both volumes was Johann Christoph Puchaim, a relative of the Pálffys, who was for a time the castellan of the castle of Komárom.

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