AUTHOR UNKNOWN, LUCAS KILIAN (1579-1637), author of the original (engraving of 1625), ZYGMUNT III, after 1625

copperplate/paper, 15.8 × 12.8 cm
inscriptions in composition (in oval surround): SIGISMUNDUS III, D.G. REX POLON: M: DUX LIT: RUSS: PRUS: MAS: SAMO: LIVO: NEC NON SVECOR: GOTH: VAND: HÆRED: REX.
under the composition text: Fulcit Atlas humeris regnum radiantis Olÿmpi, / Fulcit Atlas firmo Polnica regna pede. / At quis Atlas.' Atlas coeli vel major Atlante, / Perpetuis PIETAS accumulata bonis, / Hac astante nequit non magna POLONIA stare, / Dum stabit coeli mole gravatus Atlas.
good state of preservation