Körmöczi Katalin szerk.: Historical Exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum 3 - From the End of the Turkish Wars to the Millennium - The history of Hungary in the 18th and 19th centuries (Budapest, 2001)

ROOM 10. Hungary in the 18th Century (Gábor Németh)

24. The delivery of the Holy Crown to Buda, 1790 Copper engraving sions that the supporters of Joseph's system, which nourished great hopes at the time of his accession to the throne, increasingly turned away from him. These were the so-called Josephinists, supporters of his system - the intelligentsia, the Protestants and those nobles who were progressively minded. Because of internal opposition and foreign policy failures, on his death-bed Joseph II withdrew his decrees, as shown in S. Mansfeld's copper engraving - with the exception of the Edict of Toleration, the serf decree and the decree regulating the position of the lower clergy. "THE HUNGARIAN DAWN HAS BROKEN, 3 7 BUT THE SUN STILL HASN'T COME UP..." (Author unknown, c. 1790) On February 21, 1790, the Holy Crown, which had been sent back by Joseph II, was received in Buda. (Joseph II is known to Hungarians as the "king with a hat", since he was never crowned king of Hungary.) The event was immortalized in words and pictures alike. F. Gelineck's coloured copper engraving is made even more colourful by some commemorative lines (Fig. 24). After the collapse of the Joseph's system, there followed the short reign of