細節
GERMAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1820
Frederick William III (1770-1840), King of Prussia 1797-1840, in profile to the left, in blue uniform with red and silver collar and epaulette, wearing the breast Star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle
on ivory
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame surmounted by a crown, the reverse engraved, 'King of Prussia'
Frederick William III (1770-1840), King of Prussia 1797-1840, in profile to the left, in blue uniform with red and silver collar and epaulette, wearing the breast Star of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle
on ivory
oval, 2 in. (50 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame surmounted by a crown, the reverse engraved, 'King of Prussia'
來源
Almost certainly given by Frederick William III, King of Prussia to Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769 –1822), mounted to the cover of a gold snuff box, following the conclusion of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and by descent.
出版
Photographed in situ in the library at Wynyard Park, County Durham, circa 1890.
Wynyard Park, inventory, 1956, p. 113.
Wynyard Park, inventory, 1956, p. 113.
注意事項
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榮譽呈獻
Katharine Cooke
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