Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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March 20
On This Day
On this day in 1890 the German Emperor Wilhelm II fired his chancellor Otto Von Bismarck. The impetuous young Kaiser had rejected Bismarck's "peaceful foreign policy" and instead plotted with senior generals to work "in favour of a war of aggression." Bismarck told an aide, "That young man wants war with Russia, and would like to draw his sword straight away if he could. I shall not be a party to it."
WILHELM II (1859-1941, Emperor of Germany)
Splendid Signed Large Cabinet Portrait Photograph, by Reichard & Lindner of Unter den Linden, Berlin, showing him head and shoulders, three quarter face to the left, in full military dress with orders and damask sash, signed in English at the top left ‘William I.R.’ and dated, the print bears the photographer’s stamp 1888, the year of his accession, the signature, 13” x 7¼”, no place, 1889
55477
[BISMARCK (Otto von, 1815-1898, Prusso-German Statesman, Prince, ‘The Iron Chancellor’)]
Fine Unsigned Imperial Cabinet Portrait Photograph by Karl Hahn, with a printed signature, the image showing him head and shoulders in profile, wearing uniform and a helmet, 12” x 8½”, Munich, 1894
38121
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