Franz Joseph and Elisabeth - The Wedding Proposal

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0. A Sissi-photos (Photo credit: Seven Stars Digital).
1. The birth of Sophie by Josef Kriehuber (1855). 2. Archduchess Sophie with the little Franz by Joseph Karl Stieler. 3. Elisabeth (painting owned by the Hungarian Pannonhalmi Benés Főapátság). 4. Bad Ischl in the 19th century by Anton Pick. 5. Possenhofen Palace by Géza Paur (published in a Hungarian newspaper). 6. Elisabeth’s siblings by Joseph K. Stiele around 1854. 7. A montage made by me from pictures made by unknown (?) artists. 8-9. Kaiservilla (Pixabay). 10. The young Sisi by unknown (?) artist. 11. Eduard Kaiser, 1850s. 12. Two photos taken later, by unknown (?) photographer. 13. Franz J. by Miklós Barabás. 14. Franz J. by Eduard Klieber. 15. Sisi in Possenhofen by Lake Starnberg by unknown artist. 16. Elisabeth in 1854 a drawing after the painting of Friedrich Dürck (published in a Hungarian newspaper). 17. A montage mady by me from: Franz J. by Ranzi, 1851 and Elisabeth around 1853 by Franz Schrotzberg. 18. Elisabeth in 1852 by Franz Hohe-Anton Brugger. 19. Possenhofen Palace (Pixabay). 20. The imperial couple by Ignaz Lechleitner. 21. Sisi holding the portrait of Franz. 22. Archduchess Sophie in 1854 by Franz Schrotzberg. Miniature Porcelain, Vienna, 1854. 23. Elisabeth in front of the Possenhofen Palace in 1854 by arl Piloty and Franz. 20. Lithography in the 1860s