![ANDRÁSSY Gyula, Count, Prime Minister of Hungary and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary—portrait photograph, [ca. 1870]](https://gcp-la8-storage-cdn.lot-art.com/public/upl/1/ANDRASSY-Gyula-Count-Prime-Minister-of-Hungary-and-Minister-of-Foreign-Affairs-of-Austria-Hungary-portrait-pho_6adfe973c4566-full-14332900_1793059189-6adfe97522fed.jpg "ANDRÁSSY Gyula, Count, Prime Minister of Hungary and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary—portrait photograph, [ca. 1870]")
ANDRÁSSY Gyula, Count, Prime Minister of Hungary and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary—portrait photograph, [ca. 1870]
ANDRÁSSY Gyula, Count, Prime Minister of Hungary and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary—portrait photograph, [ca. 1870].
Photograph (albumen print) in an oval vignette on the original backing, measuring 10.7 x 6.6 cm (visiting card size). The backing is unmarked.
The subject is depicted from the waist up, wearing Hungarian formal attire (a trimmed atylla and fur), with medals. Below the photograph is a handwritten signature in ink: “Andrassy.” On the reverse, an old annotation reading “Andrassy,” a number in ink “N. 22,” and later additions in pencil and collector’s marks. Good condition.
G. Andrássy the Elder (1823–1890)—a participant in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–1849, in which many Poles fought under the leadership of Gen. Józef Bem and Gen. Henryk Dembiński. After its defeat, he was sentenced to death in absentia and hanged in effigy. Upon his return from exile, he was a co-architect of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, which paved the way for Galician autonomy. He was the first Prime Minister of Hungary during the era of dualism (1867–1871), then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary (1871–1879), and a participant in the Congress of Berlin in 1878. A close confidant of Empress Elisabeth.
ANDRÁSSY Gyula, Count, Prime Minister of Hungary and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary—portrait photograph, [ca. 1870].
Photograph (albumen print) in an oval vignette on the original backing, measuring 10.7 x 6.6 cm (visiting card size). The backing is unmarked.
The subject is depicted from the waist up, wearing Hungarian formal attire (a trimmed atylla and fur), with medals. Below the photograph is a handwritten signature in ink: “Andrassy.” On the reverse, an old annotation reading “Andrassy,” a number in ink “N. 22,” and later additions in pencil and collector’s marks. Good condition.
G. Andrássy the Elder (1823–1890)—a participant in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848–1849, in which many Poles fought under the leadership of Gen. Józef Bem and Gen. Henryk Dembiński. After its defeat, he was sentenced to death in absentia and hanged in effigy. Upon his return from exile, he was a co-architect of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, which paved the way for Galician autonomy. He was the first Prime Minister of Hungary during the era of dualism (1867–1871), then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria-Hungary (1871–1879), and a participant in the Congress of Berlin in 1878. A close confidant of Empress Elisabeth.
