The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-14
pHoroGRApHs OF ROYA1,rY.
Many Are Sold-AmericenW Women the
Nest Frequent Buyers.
From the Ne,o York Sun.


Most Frequent Buyers.
From the Neto York Sun.
Those horsey young women who buy
equestrian pictures OF the Empress Of Aus
tris must flnd it difficult to reconcile the
dashing horse-woman Of the photographs
with the grandmother Of the suicide Crown
Prince Rudolph's little daughter. The fact
Is that the empress, now "a, and probably
forever disabled from horseback riding, has
not had a picture taken for the public since
| 1867. One OF her earliest and least-known
photographs shows her young wife in
riding habit. but as only her head and bust
are visible, and she does not wear a riding
hat, the presence OF her tavorite attire
would hardly be suspected. Her latest
| photograph, now quite quarter of a cen-
fury old represents her in court robes and
crown as Queen Of Hungary.
After the photographs of British royalties
those Of German and Austrian sell best,
the Russian next, and perhaps the Italian
next, though there is a steady demand for
royal babies of all nations, including espe-
cially the little Queen WilhelminA OF Hol-
land in frooks, and the tiny King Of Spain
In velvet garments that upon other than
royal legs would be called knickerbockers.
The rage for collecting royal photographs
which grows here and is found not among
Americans, takes many odd turns. Some
collectors buy only photographs of royal
babies, and, Of course. acquire a large
stock of Queen Victoria's Astounding pro-
geny. The last addition to this gallery is the
Fife baby, with father and mother looking
down upon the mite OF royalty. Those
who do not care for babies buy
royal beauties. The Princess of Wales, who
no longer pretends to the charms Of youth
does not show the Empress OF Austria's I'M
willingness to be photographed with in
creasing years, and she reappears year after
year in the very gowns the orders for which
a famous tailor of this town Loyalty pre-
serves in q sacred album. Reigning soVer-
eigns are the special objects Of other col
lectors, while still others gather In any
thing, from the Hottest autocrat TO the
humblest and most hopeless of pretenders.
OF the latter the Bourbons and Bonapartes
are the most popular. One very mild pre-
tender, Mr.. Iturbide OF Mexico, who refuses
TO stir about his title, has the good taste TO
keep out OF the picture shops. There is
some demand for his photographs, but deal
ers in such things say that they have tried
in vain to obtain IL here and in Mexico.
No royal beauty has had a greater sale
for the past two years than the Baroness
Vesars, the victim of the Austrian crown
prince. Her picture In half a dozen poses
has sold enormously in the United States
and over most of the civilized world, but it
cannot be bought in the Austrian empire.
Portrait sellers complain that the Germans
alone among resident foreigners can be de-
pended on as purchasers of royal photo
graphs. The Italians purchase few Of the
Italian royal family. though they and pso-
pie Of all nationalities buy photographs of
smiling Pope Leo and the late Pore Plus
The French care little for pictures Of their
pre1enders and scarcely more for those OF
their presidents. The small German royal
ties are purchased chiefly by their former
subjects resident here, save when some leu
tonic princekin weds British or imperial
German princess. when the collectors and
public begin to take an interest in Pumper-
nickel.
Republican rulers excite small interest,
and since Dom Pedro fled from Brazil no
ruler on this side of the Atlantic has been
good sale with the photograph dealers. Even
the bronzed soldier face of the picturesque
Diaz Of Mexico is in small demand, and 1t is
only where there is some such excitement as
that of the Chilean trouble that the prosi-
dents below the isthmus are objects Of In
terest.