Recueil des devotions et divertissemens de Son Altesse Serenissisme Marie Elisabeth, archiduchesse d'Aûtriche, &c., Gouvernante generale des Pays-Bas Aûtrichiens, &c. &c. &c. : dans sa residence à Bruxelles représentées en tailles douces
A 1736 engraved album published in Brussels by George Fricx and engraved by Jan Baptist Berterham, recording the devotions and entertainments of Archduchess Maria Elizabeth, Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands, at her Brussels residence. Its plates are framed in ornate scrolling borders with French captions beneath each scene. The pictures show formal processions, carriages, and court ceremony, offering a designer reference for baroque decorative framing and crowded period street and interior scenes.
