Empress Gallery

Mozart performs for Empress Maria Theresia, 1 October 1762, (1936). Creator: Unknown

Mozart performs for Empress Maria Theresia, 1 October 1762, (1936). Mozart Vor Kaiserin Maria Theresia, 1 Oktober 1762'. The six-year-old Mozart plays for the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria at the imperial court in Vienna. Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was a child prodigy, and supposedly jumped on the empress's lap when he visited with his father and sister. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]

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Bucharest, late 19th-early 20th century. Creator: Unknown

Bucharest, late 19th-early 20th century. Decorative coat of arms for the city of Bucharest, capital of Romania, with the motto Patria Si Dreptul Meu, (The Homeland And My Right). Above is a pearl-encrusted crown, and below the motto is a Byzantine church, with dolphins flanking the central panel, and medallion portraits of Saints Constantine and Helena, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (272-337 AD) and his mother Helena (c246-330 AD). At the bottom is a bull's head

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Tsarina Alexandra nursing wounded soldiers, 1914, (c1920). Creator: Unknown

Tsarina Alexandra nursing wounded soldiers, 1914, (c1920). Imperial Nurses with the Russian Red Cross: the Tsarina (seated on the right) and her daughters nursing wounded soldiers from the eastern theatre of war'. Alexandra Empress of Russia (1872-1918), seen here with her daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna, was engaged in charity work and served as a nurse during the First World War. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume II, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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