Lot 58
  • 58

Photographs and memorabilia relating to Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria (1830-1916) and his family

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5,000 - 6,000 EUR
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comprising:
1. a birthday card made by him at the age of six to his grandmother, Caroline, Queen of Bavaria, Princess of Baden (1776-1841), who celebrated her 60th birthday in Schönbrunn on July 12th, 1836

2.
a birthday card with a watercolour of a cupid, addressed to the beloved Empress and Queen (Empress Elisabeth of Austria) and dated 22.12.1889 (the Empress was born on Christmas, 1837)

3. a similar other card of a flying cupid, holding a bouquet of forget-me-nots, addressed to Theodor (Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, 1839-1909) and including wishes to his mother (Ludovika, Duchess in Bavaria, Princess of Bavaria, 1808-1892) and his siblings

4. a carte-de-visite photograph of the Empress seated in a white dress

5. - 8. a signed photograph of the Emperor, Atelier Koller Károly, together with three other photographs, various sizes

9. - 11. a cardboard sheet pasted with eighteen photographs of his mother-in-law, Duchess Ludovica in Bavaria, some with her holding a dog and two similar ones

12. a leather frame containing three cartes-de-visite of Duchess Ludovica in Bavaria and three photographs of his son Crown Prince Rudolph, one by Atelier Angerer 1869

13. a leather frame containing four photographs of his wife Empress Elisabeth, one showing her with her mother and a footman who carries a dog

14. a green leather frame with gilt crown containing a photograph of the Emperor

15. a carte-de-visite of Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, later Queen of Bavaria, Atelier Angerer

16. a signed and dated photograph of Amalie Maria, Duchess in Bavaria (1865-1912), niece of Emperor Franz Joseph, with her husband Duke Wilhelm von Urach (1864-1928)



17. a print of James Fillis on horseback with a dedication to the Emperor's sister-in-law, Queen Marie of Naples

18.-19. two photographs of Emperor Franz Joseph's younger brother, Archduke Ludwig Victor (1842-1919)

20. - 21. a carte-de-visite of the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria and another one of the King in later age



22. a wedding photograph of Ludwig, Prince of Saxe-Coburg (1870-1942) and his second wife Anna Countess von und zu Trauttmannsdorff, signed and dated 1907

23. - 24. two large photographs of Princess Margarethe of Thurn und Taxis, Archduchess of Austria, one Atelier Schmidbauer, signed and dated 1893, and the other Atelier Numa Blanc Cannes, signed and dated 1894

25. - 26. two other framed photographs of the princess, one of her on horseback signed Margit and dated 1904

27. - 30. a photograph of the Emperor's nephew and godson, Albert I, Prince of Thurn und Taxis and another of Princess Margarethe, each holding their first born son Prince Franz Joseph, signed, inscribed and dated 1894; another of their second son Prince Karl August, dated 1900, all Atelier Schmidbauer, a photograph of Fürst Albert of Thurn und Taxis with his son Erbprinz Franz Joseph, in hunting dress, signed by both, Atelier Spiegl, Schliersee

31. a signed carte-de-visite of Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, dated 1892, Atelier Reitmayer, framed

32. an engagement photograph by Atelier Elvira, Munich, of Crown Prince Albert, later Albert I, King of Belgium (1875-1934) and his fiancée Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria (1876-1965), signed by both sitters in ink, she was the niece of Emperor Franz Joseph, daughter of his wife's brother, Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria

33. another signed photograph of the Crown Princess, later Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, holding her eldest son, Leopold, later King Leopold III, circa 1902

34. - 42. a group of eight photographs of Duke Franz Joseph in Bavaria (1888-1912), nephew of the Emperor and youngest brother of Duchess Elisabeth, all by Atelier Franz Grainer, München

43. - 45. three photographs of Duke Franz Joseph, Atelier Lafayette, London

46. - 51. four photographs of Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria (1839-1909), the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph's wife Elisabeth, Atelier Dührkoop, Hamburg; and two of the Duke, Atelier Dittmar, Munich

52. a framed photograph showing Queen Elisabeth of Romania, 'Carmen Sylva', playing the organ, signed and dated 1904, Atelier Mándy, Bukarest

53. - 54. two photographs of Princess Mary of Hanover, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, Atelier Jägerspacher, Gmunden

55. a leather frame with a signed photograph of Grand Duchess Victoria Melita of Russia, Princess of Great Britain (1876-1936), dated 1905

56. - 57. / 1-7 two signed photographs of the Prussian Crown Prince Wilhelm, Atelier Selle & Kuntze, both dated 1904 and seven others

58. - 61. a framed photograph by the Prussian Crown Prince of his wife, Crown Princess Cecilie, both signed by him and two photographs of the Crown Princess, one signed and dated '05, Atelier Voigt, the other inscribed Der lieben Tante Marie-José, Cecilie 1908

62. - 64. two framed and one unframed photograph of Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948), dated 1906, 1907, 1909



65. - 68. one framed an two unframed photographs of Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (1883-1942), all signed, one dated Kreuth, 1903, another one of him with his wife Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, signed by both and dated 1905, Atelier Sellin

69. a signed photograph of Princess Marie Auguste of Prussia, Princess of Anhalt, holding her son Karl Franz Joseph, signed and dated Potsdam Januar 1917

70. a photograph of three sons of Kaiser Wilhelm, Prince Adalbert, Prince August Wilhelm and Prince Oskar, dated 23.7.1897, Atelier Kegel, Kassel

71.- 73. two oval photographs, one framed of Kaiser Wilhelm's daughter Victoria Luise, Duchess zu Braunschweig, one with her son Ernst August, signed and dated 1914, the other with her daughter Frederike Luise, nine months old, dated 1917; and a circular photograph of Prince Ernst August, nine months old, the baby seated next to a Christmas tree, dated 24. Dez. 1914

74. a photograph of the Duchess Victoria Luise with her husband, the Duke of Braunschweig together with their two children, dated 1916

75. a blue velvet box, applied with the enamelled armorial shield of Fürst Löwenstein, containing an oval photograph of a Hussar Officer in gilt frame