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Louis XVI, 1754-1793 Flight to Varennes

The royal Flight to Varennes ( Fuite à Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to Montmédy, where the King wished to initiate a counter-revolution by joining up with royalist troops. They escaped as far as the small town of Varennes-en-Argonne, where they were arrested after being recognized at their previous stop in Sainte-Menehould.
Size 16 x 11 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:2875

Frederick III, 1415-1493 Holy Roman Emperor

Prior to his imperial coronation, he was duke of the Inner Austrian lands of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola from 1424, and also acted as regent over the Duchy of Austria from 1439. He was elected and crowned King of Germany in 1440.[1] His reign of 53 years is the longest in the history of the Holy Roman Empire or the German monarchy. Upon his death in 1493 he was succeeded by his son Maximilian.
Size 23 x 36 cms
Price £55.00

Ref:2876

Peter Strozzi 1626-1664

Habsburg Army general of Italian descent, killed by the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Novi Zrin Castle in Medjimurje County, Croatia
Date:1646
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00

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Franz Anton von Harrach 1665-1727

Franz Anton von Harrach zu Rorau was appointed coadjutor of Vienna and Titular Bishop of Epiphania in Syria in 1701, was from 1702 to 1705 Prince-Bishop of Vienna, 1705 coadjutor of Salzburg, and ruled from 1709 to 1727. He was considered one of the most notable Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00

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Alessandro Falconieri 1657-1734

He was born on 8 February 1657, into the noble Falconieri family, son of Paolo Francesco and Vittoria del Bufalo. Pope Benedict XIII elevated him to the rank of cardinal of the title of Santa Maria della Scala in the consistory of 11 September 1724. He died on 26 January 1734 at the age of 77.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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Albert VII, Archduke of Austria 1559-1621

Albert VII was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621. Prior to this, he had been a cardinal, archbishop of Toledo, viceroy of Portugal and Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Michael Adolf von Althann 1574–1638

Distinguished himself in the Long Turkish War, at Székesfehérvár and Esztergom. At the end of the war he was appointed field marshal. On 14 June 1610 he was made an Imperial Count. He was later sent on diplomatic missions to the Principality of Transylvania and the Sublime Porte. In 1625 he became the first grand master of the short-lived order of knighthood Militia Christiana, of which he was a founder. He died in Vienna on 7 May 1636.
Size 18 x 29 cms
Price £28.00

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Tobias Oelhafen von Schöllenbach, 1601 – 1666.

Councillor at Nürnberg German statesman and jurist
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Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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Frank II of Borssele 1396-1470

Frank II of Borssele was a 15th-century Zeelandic nobleman. He was stadhouder of Holland and Zeeland, but is mainly known as the fourth husband of countess Jacqueline of Holland. He was the son of Floris van Borssele and Oda van Bergen, Lord of Sint Maartensdijk, Scherpenisse and Zuylen.

Artist/Engraver
Size 14 x 13 cms
Price £18.00

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Edward Jenner FRS FRCPE 1749-1823

Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae (‘pustules of the cow’), the term coined by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.

Artist/Engraver Schuster after Pernel
Size 20 x 17 cms
Price £18.00

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