2-702-491 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'William Pitt', (1933). Portrait of William Pitt the Younger, British politician and Prime Minister (1759-1806). Pitt became Prime Minister at the age of 24, making him the youngest to hold the office in British history. He was also one of the longest serving Prime Ministers, holding office from 1783-1801 and then again from 1804-1806. After a miniature by Horace Hone. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]