{"id":4095,"date":"2020-01-16T16:36:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T21:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/?page_id=4095"},"modified":"2021-12-03T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:53:06","slug":"royalty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/askb\/royalty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection: Royalty and Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Plate from Incoronatione di Ferdinand I a Re de Regno Lombardo-Veneto<\/a> (Milan, circa 1838). This book was formerly in the Vienna palace of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha princes.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to military uniforms, Mrs. Brown was very interested in civic and ceremonial costumes and uniforms and sought out books depicting such. She amassed an impressive collection of large, beautifully illustrated fete books describing and depicting royal and state occasions, such as coronations, dynastic weddings and funerals, processions, and other scenes of pomp and circumstance at which a variety of uniforms, liveries, and ceremonial dress are much in evidence. Notable among these are elaborate volumes, some stamped with royal armorials or containing royal bookplates, depicting the coronations of Louis XVI<\/a> (1775), Napoleon I<\/a> (1804), George IV of England<\/a> (1821), Karl I<\/a> as the last King of Hungary (1917), and Empress Elizabeth<\/a> (1742) and Emperor Nicholas II<\/a> (1896) of Russia. One particular volume of note is the fete book published in commemoration of the coronation of Tsar Alexander II<\/a> of Russia in 1856. This impressive folio contains 17 fine chromolithographed plates printed in France by Lemercier illustrating various coronation scenes and celebrations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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