General Portraits

15x23 cm

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.
Van Dyck. J.Posselwhte.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, GLASGOW EDINBURGH, LONDON & NEW YORK. 
Gutsavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594-1632), King of Sweden from 1611-1632. Led Sweden to military supremacy during the Thirty Years' War and often regarded as one of the greatest military commanders. Posthumously given the name Gustavus Aldophus the Great.
Stipple engraving published in The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography by William Mackenzie. London Glasgow & Edinburgh, 1880.