3-077-881 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Excitement in the streets of Berlin at the news of Prince Bismarck's resignation, 1890. 'The scene exhibited in one of our Berlin Sketches is that of the street crowd in the evening of Tuesday, March 18, when the resignation of the Prussian Ministry and the Chancellorship of the German Empire by Prince Bismarck was made known, while carriages rapidly passed to the Emperor's palace, conveying important official persons, civil and military, with whom his Majesty chose to take counsel. The appointment of General Von Caprivi, as the new Chancellor, was announced in the evening of the following day'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.