2-702-619 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Wilhelm I', (1933). Portrait of Wilhelm I when young, as Prince of Prussia (1797-1888). Kaiser Wilhelm became King of Prussia in 1861 and was proclaimed Emperor of Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War. After a miniature of 1815. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]