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  • The assassination of Alexander II: the place outside the Winter Palace is strewn with corpses and debris of the bomb-explosion, while Alexander emerges alive from his coach. Process print (?).
  • The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.
  • Alexander I of Russia taking leave of Friedrich Wilhelm III and his wife, Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, next to the tomb of Frederick the Great. Aquatint by J. Berka after S. Le Gros, 1806.