Statuette based on Drake's design for the monument to King Friedrich Wilhelm III in Berlin's Tiergarten.

Friedrich Willhelm III, King of Prussia (1770-1840; 1797 King)

Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin, Modeled after the monument by Johann Friedrich Drake

About 1849

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