2-702-515 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Friedrich II., Der Grosse', (1933). Portrait of King Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786) with his brother Prince Henry of Prussia (1726-1802) and his nephew Friedrich Wilhelm II (1744-1797), King of Prussia from 1786. Known as Frederick the Great, Frederick II's significant accomplishments include military victories, reorganization of the Prussian armies, patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment, and success in the Seven Years' War. After a miniature of 1770. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]