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MAX MICHAEL (1823-91)
Unter den Linden with the statue of Frederick the Great, Berlin
c.1858Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour | 21.6 x 30.5 cm (whole object) | RCIN 920689
On her fi rst visit to Berlin Queen Victoria admired the Unter den Linden, which she described as ‘the Bond St of Berlin, a broad street, with trees … very fi ne & gay, with pretty shops’. The fashionably dressed fi gures on the boulevard add interest to the scene.
