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An engraved portrait of an old man with a full white beard, a ruff and heavy chains over a dark gown, above a Latin inscription
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Kašpar Kaplíř of Sulevice

Drawn from life in Prague by the emperor's engraver, eleven years before Kaplíř, at eighty-six, became the oldest of the twenty-seven.

Made by
Aegidius Sadeler
Made
1610
Technique
Engraving
Credit
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain (CC0).
The event: The Old Town Square execution →Source ↗

Aegidius Sadeler was the engraver of Emperor Rudolf II, and the inscription says he drew this ad vivum, from life, in Prague in 1610. The Latin dedicates the print to Kaplíř as the emperor’s councillor and a director of the Bohemian Chamber: a man who served the crown for decades.

In 1618 he became one of the thirty directors of the estates. In 1621 he was eighty-six, the oldest man on the scaffold, and the first of the knights to die.

An engraved portrait of an old man with a full white beard, a ruff and heavy chains over a dark gown, above a Latin inscription

The Old Town Square execution

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