1721 Copper Engraving Portrait Archduchess Magdalena Austria Hall In Tirol EUM1

This is an original 1721 black and white copper engraving of "Magdalena Ertz Herzogin zu Österreich." This is a portrait of Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, a member of the Habsburg House, and founder and first Abbess of a "royal convent" in Hall in Tirol, a town in the Innsbruck-Land district of Tyrol, Austria. Magdalena died in 1590 and was buried in the Jesuit church in Hall in Tirol. In 1706, her remains were transferred to the convent church. The portrait is surrounded by a beautiful decorative motif mimicking a frame set against a strongly cross-hatched and etched background. The design features a subtly ornate frame upon which the heraldic, two-headed Quarter Eagle sits, drawing back drapery from the portrait and framing the Crown of the Austrian Empire. The drapery flows down the left and right side of the frame, flanking the portrait before meeting a botanical design at the bottom of the image. T