2-710-653 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The German Emperor'', (1919). Portrait of Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, with the Totenkopf on his fur busby: 'This unique portrait shows the Kaiser in the uniform of the famous Death's Head Hussars; incidentally it shows him without that characteristic theatrical pose peculiar to all other authorised portraits.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. I, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]