Austrian field marshal , courtier and prince of the Hungarian nobility of Batthyány .
Size 9 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678-1711
Joseph I was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg.
Date:1705
Size 9.5 x 15.2 cms
Price £28.00
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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 1671-1741
French playwright and poet, particularly noted for his cynical epigrams.
Size 9.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Maria Anna Adamberger 1752-1804
Maria Anna Adamberger, born Jaquet, was an Austrian actress. She was known for her roles in various comedies, while her sister Katharina Adamberger preferred tragic roles. Heinrich Joseph von Collin and other poets have composed pieces about her.
Size 7.3 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Angelica Catalani 1780-1849
Angelica Catalani was an Italian opera singer, the daughter of a tradesman. Her greatest gift was her voice, a soprano of nearly three octaves in range. Its unsurpassed power and flexibility made her one of the greatest bravura singers of all times. She also worked as a singing teacher.:
Size 7 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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Torquato Tasso 1544-1595
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the Siege of Jerusalem.
Size 9 x 9.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Voltaire 1694-1778
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
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Size 7.6 x 7.8 cms
Price £14.00
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Friedrich Baumann 1763-1841
Austrian actor a member of the Leopoldstadt Theater under Karl von Marinelli since 1781 and played alongside the famous “Kasperle Laroche” and his older brother Anton Baumann the comic roles in the local plays that formed the repertoire of the popular “Punch and Judy show”. As “Schneider Wetz” in the sisters of Prague by Wenzel Müller , he received great applause and general popularity.
Artist: Johann Joseph Neidl 1776-1832
Size 12 x 16.2 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles de Lorraine, duke de Mayenne 1554-1611
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, or Charles de Guise, was a French nobleman of the house of Guise and a military leader of the Catholic League, which he headed during the French Wars of Religion, following the assassination of his brothers at Blois in 1588.
Size 12 x 15.3 cms
Price £28.00
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Leopold I. Holy Roman Emperor 1640-1705
Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 by the death of his elder brother Ferdinand IV
Size 11.2 x 16.3 cms
Price £28.00
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