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Oval portrait engraving with title in border, within rectangular frame. Depiction of Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz (1573-1632). Ernst Casimir was count of Nassau-Dietz (1606 - 1632), stadtholder of Friesland (1620 - 1632) and stadholder of Stad en Lande and Landscape Drenthe (1625 - 1632). He is best known for his military achievements during the Eighty Years' War. He died in 1632 when he was shot in the head during an inspection of the trenches at Roermond. The alleged musket ball that hit him is kept in the city library of Roermond. The hat, with bullet hole, is on display in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Copper engraving, published in the famous book by Willem Baudartius (1565-1640) 'Les Guerres De Nassau, (...)', Amsterdam, Michel Colin de Thovoyon, 1616.
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