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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41

Painting Lent by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

Painting Lent by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

5-6 "Ceremony of the Opening of the International Exhibition in Vienna, 1873." By N. Chevalier.

This picture contains more than 100 portraits. On a platform, profusely decorated with plants and flowers, are seated the Emperor and Empress of Austria; the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, the Duke of Connaught, the Crown Prince of Denmark, the Count of Flanders, the Countess Girgenti, the Princess Amalia of Coburg, and the Duke of Coburg are also present, and a vast concourse of princes and nobility of all nations occupy the second and successive rows of seats. The Archduke Carl Ludwig is represented in the act of reading the first address.