Melchior Pyrnesius, Bishop of Nicopolis, Bulgaria and Suffragan Bishop of Olomouc, Moravia.
Artist/Engraver Egidius Sadeler II c.1570-1629
Size 18 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3601
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Johann Heinrich Berger 1657-1732
Berger married Maria Sophia Jacobi (* 1665 Dresden; † 1711), the daughter of Dr. jur. Adam Christoph Jacobi and Maria Gertrud Börner (1645–1711). The couple had eight children, four sons and a daughter survived him. The surviving sons were Christof Heinrich von Berger, Johann Samuel von Berger (born August 16, 1691 in Wittenberg † September 17, 1757 in Celle, enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on October 14, 1703, received a master’s degree in philosophy, licentiate on October 18, 1709 and doctor of medicine in September 1713, doctor in Celle, married for the second time in 1726 to Margarethe Louise von Ramdohr (1705–1790), granddaughter of Andreas Ramdohr), Johann August von Berger and Friedrich Ludwig von Berger. The daughter married the theologian Andreas Charitius.
Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3599
Ignaz Kassian Bonaventura von Enzenberg 1709-1772
Ignaz Kassian Bonaventura von Enzenberg (born July 14, 1709 in Brixen; † September 18, 1772 in Untermais near Meran), senior clerk and court chamber councilor.
Artist/Engraver Franz Carl Reissig
Size 16 x 9.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3598
Vittoria della Rovere 1622-1694
Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.
She gave her husband four children, two of which would survive infancy the future Cosimo III and Francesco Maria de’ Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro. She was the Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro in her own right and these went to her youngest son when she died. She was later the guardian of her three grandchildren. Her marriage bought a lot of art treasures to the House of Medici which are today at the Palazzo Pitti Uffizi Gallery in Florence. She did not get on with her daughter in law Marguerite Louise d’Orléans.
Artist/Engraver Pieter de Jode
Size 29 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3597
Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi 1555-1592
Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto),(1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet.[5] Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.
Artist/Engraver
Size 32 x 21 cms
Price £35.00
Ref:3596
Pyotr Rumyantsev 1725-1796
Count Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky was one of the foremost Russian generals of the 18th century, and one of the great military commanders in universal history between 1618 and 1905.Rumyantsev used mobile divisional squares for the first time in history as opposed to linear battle orders and initiated the formation of light (jaeger) battalions in the Russian Army, which operated in a scattered order.
He governed Little Russia in the name of Empress Catherine the Great from the abolition of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1764 until Catherine’s death 32 years later. Monuments to his victories include the Kagul Obelisk in Tsarskoye Selo (1772), the Rumyantsev Obelisk on Vasilievsky Island (1798–1801), and a galaxy of Derzhavin’s odes.
Size 9 x 9 cm
Price £18.00
STK.3594
Maria Theresa Empress of Austria 1717-1780
Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure (in her own right). She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Galicia and Lodomeria, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, and Holy Roman Empress.
Size 17 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3593
Martha Hatfield (née Nesbit) 1652
‘the wise virgin,’ the daughter of Anthony Hatfield, by his wife Faith Westley, was born at Leighton, Yorkshire, 27 Sept. 1640. The Hatfields were puritans. In April 1652 Martha was seized with an illness which the physicians were unable to define, but which seems to have been a form of catalepsy. For seventeen days she lay stiff and was unable to speak, and it was said that she could neither see nor hear. When she recovered her voice she uttered rambling recollections of pious discourses abounding in quotations of Scripture.
Artist: James Caulfield 1794
Size 24 x 19 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3592
Elizabeth Paulet. 1594–1656
Elizabeth Devereux (née Paulet), Countess of Essex
Second wife of 3rd Earl of Essex, and later wife of Sir Thomas Higgons
Artist: William Hollar
Size 13 x 10 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3591
Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden 1626-1671
He was the second son of Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden and Catharina Ursula von Hohenzollern–Hechingen. He was also the uncle of Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
Artist: Paul Fürst 1608-1666
Size 10 x 6 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3590