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Summary
DescriptionCrown Prince Frederick William of Prussia - Illustrated London News August 20, 1870.PNG
Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia, 1870. From a portrait taken in St. Petersburg.
Based on a portrait published by Marion and Co., London.
There's an engraver's mark on the left of the picture, a superimposed S and T. Hence, the engraver is Thomas Dewell Scott. Since this is based on a photograph, it is almost certainly not the Mr. Landells mentioned in the text, as he would be doing on-the-spot illustrations, such as Image:Franco-Prussian War- Illustrated London News, September 3, 1870.PNG
However, Victorian journals are not very good at attribution. When attribution is possible, in the absence of an actual byline, signature, engraver's mark, or other direct attribution in the journal, it generally requires access to an annotated editor's copy or records of payment. Hence, the author of the text is effectively unknowable.
Note on Scan: Stitched together from two scans: One for the portrait, and one for the text. Older revisions had a third scan for the header, but this caused problems due to image size with Wikipedia's thumbnail creator. It could be got under the size limit with a extremely tight crop, but at any reasonable thumbnail size the text block was rubbing up against the borders of the frames in an ugly way, and I didn't think it was worth it just to show the date and name of the newspaper. There has been some cleanup of the white areas, which were somewhat dirty, but anything on the portrait itself was left untouched. The exact positioning of the parts compared to each other may be slightly inaccurate, but it shouldn't make any significant difference in appearance, as the joins go through white space.
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