Ferdinand IV was made and crowned King of Bohemia in 1646, King of Hungary and Croatia in 1647, and King of the Romans on 31 May 1653. He also served as Duke of Cieszyn
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor 1747-1792
Leopold II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792, and Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was the earliest opponent of capital punishment in modern history.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Peter I, The Great 1672-1725 Czar of Russia
Peter the Great, Peter I or Peter Alexeyevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death in 1725
Artist: J.Thomson
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Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Albert I of Germany 1255-1308
Albert I of Habsburg, the eldest son of King Rudolf I of Germany and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenberg, was a Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 and King of Germany from 1298 until his assassination
Size 8.5 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Joseph Marie Jacquard 1752-1834
French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the “Jacquard loom”), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer.
Artist: Bonnefond
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Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Valentin Jameray Duval 1695-1775
Peasant from the Yonne who rose to become librarian at the court of Lorraine. His Mémoires, written c. 1733–47, but published in full only in the 20th century
Artist: Geille
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Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Jan Nieuwenhuijzen 1724-1806
Jan Nieuwenhuijzen was a Dutch Mennonite teacher and minister. He was first trained to be a book seller and in 1743 he entered the guild in Haarlem. He married the poet Gezina Wijnalda, a niece of Age Wijnalda in 1751.
Artist: Geille
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Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Michel de l’Hôpital 1507-1573
Statesman, lawyer, and humanist who, as chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568, was instrumental in the adoption by the French government of a policy of toleration toward the Huguenots.
Artist: Blanchard
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein 1583-1634
Also von Waldstein, was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years’ War. His successful martial career made him one of the richest and most influential men in the Holy Roman Empire by the time of his death.
Artist: Van Dyck
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Saint Mark
Saint Mark engraving by L.Hoffmann and published in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, Germany,1859.
Artist: Hoffmann
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Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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