Beschreibung / Was auf Ableiben Weyland Ihrer Keyserl. Majestaet Josephi, Biss nach vorgegangener Erb-Huldigung / Welche dem Allerdurchleuchtigst- Grossmachtigst- Und Unueberwindlichsten Roemischen Keyser / Carolo Dem Sechsten / Zu Hispanien / Hungarn / und Boheim Koenig / u. u. Als Erz-Herzogen zu Oesterreich / Die gesamte Nider-Oesterreichische Staende Den 8. Novembris A: 1712. In allertieffester Unterthaenigkeit abgelegt / Sich Merkwuerdiges hat zugetragen / Und auf Anordnung vorermelter Loebl. Staenden mit allen Umstaenden beschriben worden / Durch den Nider-Oesterreichischen Land-Syndicum, Herrn Johann Baptist von Mairn / Edlen von Mairsfeld / dess Heil. Roemischen Reiches Rittern.
Gedruckt zu Wien in Oesterreich /: Bey Johann Jacob Kuerner / einer Hoch-Loebl. Ni:De:Landschaft Buchdrucker., [after 1712.]
Physical Description
[10], 76 p., frontis., 11 pl. (pl. 3-8 are dble., pl. 2 is dble. and fold.); 435 mm. (Folio.)
General Note
In the Royal Academy's copy pl. 9, 10 are bound in reverse order.
Contents
[Frontis., t.p., dedic.] - [Text, with pl.].
Responsibility Note
The frontispiece is signed as drawn by Antoni Beduzzi and engraved by Benjamin Kenckel. Plates 1, 8, 9 are unsigned; all others are signed as drawn by J.C. Ha(c)khof(f)er and engraved by J.A. Pfeffel and C. Engelbrecht (pl. 10 as engraved by Pfeffel only).
References
A survey was B. Holme, Princely feasts and festivals: five centuries (1988).
Summary Note
The frontispiece shows a monarch enthroned, in an elaborate architectural setting. Plates 1, 2 show a procession; plates 3-5, religious and secular ceremonies; plates 6-11, banquets.
Copy Note
The title-page is inscribed in ink, 'Cotta' (?).
Binding Note
18th-century sprinkled calf; spine decorated in blind.
Rites and ceremonies - Processions - Festivals - Fetes - Celebrations - Banquets - Austria - Vienna - St Stephen's Cathedral - History - 18th century - Baroque
Rulers - Monarchs - Publicizing - Public relations - Austria - Vienna - 18th century
Pictorial works - Austria - 18th century