LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Most paintings are of the Brandenburg-Prussian Royal Family

 
Paintings and illustrations on the dust-jacket, left to right:

1. King Frederick the Second of Prussia, known as ‘the Great.’ Anton Graff, around 1781. Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin.

2. Princess Anna Amalie of Prussia. Copperplate after a painting, around 1743, by Antoine Pesne. Photo: AKG London.  

3. Baron Frederick von der Trenck in Fort Berge(n), Magdeburg. A copperplate by J.E. Mansfeld which appeared in Trenck’s 1787 autobiography.

Other paintings, illustrations and maps:

4A. The Hohenzollern Rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia (1640-1786)

4B. The England-Hanover & Brandenburg-Prussia Lineages.

4C. The Expansion of Brandenburg-Prussia, 1413-1786.

5. Frederick William I of Prussia. Antoine Pesne, in 1729. Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin.*

6. Queen Sophie Dorothea of Prussia. Antoine Pesne, in 1737. Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin.*


7. Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia. Antoine Pesne, around 1740. Staatliche Museen Preussische Kulturbesitz,Gemäldegalerie,  Berlin.* 

8. Queen Elisabeth Christine of Prussia. Antoine Pesne. Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin.*


9. Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia. From Antoine Pesne’s workshop. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg.*

10. Prince Henry of Prussia. Anton Graff. Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin.*

11. Frederick the Second of Prussia, see 1.*


12. Friederike Charlotte Leopoldine, Abbess of Herford, Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt. Felix Güte, in 1767.
Heimatsmuseum Herford. Fotograph: Rainer Mattern.  

13. Princess Anna Amalie of Prussia. Antoine Pesne. Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten, Berlin. Neues Palais, Potsdam.*

14. Princess Amalie of Prussia. Antoine Pesne, around 1744. Oil on canvas, 57 × 44 inches, SN 378. Bequest of John Ringling. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Florida, USA.

15. Major Battles of the Seven Years’ War.

16. Princess Amalie of Prussia, see 2.


17. Princess Amalie of Prussia. From Antoine Pesne’s workshop, around 1744. Fürstlich Salm-Salm’sche Verwaltung. Museum Wasserburg Anholt.

18. Princess Amalie of Prussia. Antoine Pesne. Schloß Bayreuth. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München. Nr. 7196.

19. Baron Frederick von der Trenck, see 3.

20. Baron Frederick von der Trenck’s cell in Fort Berge(n), Magdeburg. Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg. 


21. Friederike Charlotte Leopoldine, Abbess of Herford, Margravine of Brandenburg-Schwedt. See 12.

22. Baron Frederick von der Trenck. Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, A 22160.


23. Pandour Colonel Baron Franz von der Trenck. Copperplate from an Italian edition of his life,1764.  

*This painting with kind permission of the Geheimes Staatsarchiv, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Scanned from Friedrich der Große. Eine Ausstellung. Heenemann Verlag, Berlin. 1986.

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