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prinzsorgenfrei ([personal profile] prinzsorgenfrei) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2021-01-05 10:59 am (UTC)

Heinrich's Lookbook

Alright, here's the kind of crappy pdf that I managed to create with my phone camera and an app that I have cursed about 200 times since I downloaded it this morning:
"Prinz Heinrich von Preußen in Bildnissen seiner Zeit"

It should be legible (mostly), although the image quality could be better.

I originally got this catalogue with the idea that I might be able to write about Heinrich's superior taste in wigs for an art history class I'm taking, but, according to my professor, wigs are the topic that is pretty much the most difficult to research with the art history library being closed. Soooo that didn't work out, but I am still very happy with my purchase :D One of my personal favourites is this "caricature by an unknown artist", I think it's rather charming:
images

Almost as charming as Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun writing how she "can barely describe how ugly [she] thought [Heinrich] was".

I'll probably try to properly scan the image parts of the catalogue at some point, but until then I can also just send you better images outside of the pdf if the need arises ^^

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