Unknown Artist

Wilhelm I, King of Prussia

1870

Cabinet card format photography facilitated the mass distribution of royal portraits, making this image of Prussia's future German Kaiser widely accessible to his subjects.

Medium: albumen print, cabinet card

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Unknown Artist, Wilhelm I, King of Prussia, 1870

Cabinet card format photography facilitated the mass distribution of royal portraits, making this image of Prussia's future German Kaiser widely accessible to his subjects.

Medium: albumen print, cabinet card
Year: 1870
Seen at: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago