Post_mortem_portrait_of_Kaiser_Frederick_III.jpg


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English: Post-mortem portrait of Emperor Friedrich III , 1888.
Photograph, mounted on cardboard, with a post-mortem portrait of Emperor Friedrich III, laid out in the Neues Palais in Potsdam, on 16 June 1888. The Emperor lies with the head on a pillow, the hands are folded on the body. He wears a ribbon around the neck with the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. On his chest lies a withered laurel wreath, which was deposited there with his sword by his widow Victoria. Vicky had given him the wreath in 1871 when he returned from the Franco-Prussian war.
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Source http://fotocollectie.huisdoorn.nl/HuDF-0069
Author Reichard & Lindner

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16 June 1888 Gregorian