Mathias Steinl: Frontispiece commemorating the ceremony of Hereditary Homage of the Lower Austrian Estates for Joseph I in 1

Mathias Steinl: Frontispiece commemorating the ceremony of Hereditary Homage of the Lower Austrian Estates for Joseph I in 1

This engraving is an allegorical representation of the social order as based on the Estates: representatives of the privileged Estates gather at the foot of the monarch, who is surrounded by personifications of just rule and the patron saints of the land.