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Alice (Princess) Seydlitz bei Rossbach

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roundel depicting the heroic leadership of the Prussian cavalry officer, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, at the battle of Rossbach, during the Seven Years' War, in 1757, pen and ink on silk, 225mm. diameter, signed, dated and inscribed, Alice, Aug: 6/56 Osborne, lower right, mounted on board support, framed and glazed in circular oak frame.

***Princess Alice (1843-1878) was the 2nd daughter and 3rd child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Although born in the family apartment at Buckingham Palace, it was the event that prompted Albert to seek a larger family home, leading to the acquisition of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The continuing Germanic identity of the British royal family through this period is well known (Princess Alice counted Ernest Augustus I of Hanover, Feodora, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Ernest II, Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha amongst her godparents), so this competently executed drawing was most probably copied from some pictorial reference, doubtless readily available to the young thirteen year old, to mark the centenary of the beginning of the Seven Years' War (1756-63). .

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