A work made of pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with graphite, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer with graphite, laid down on cream paper, laid down on cream board edged with gold.

Coronation of Otto the Great in the Church of Saint'Ambrogio, Milan

1650

Johann Christoph Storer German, 1620-1671

Germany

Johann Christophorus Storer was a leading artist in Lombardy in the mid-17th century when he executed this drawing of the coronation of Otto the Great, the first Holy Roman Emperor (r. 962–73), who brought Italy and Burgundy under German control.

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with graphite, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer with graphite, laid down on cream paper, laid down on cream board edged with gold

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