Writer University of Vienna
Engraved by Johann Ernst Mansfeld 1749 – 1796
Size 16 x 10 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3577
Category Archives: Austrian
Baron Tobias Philipp von Gebler 1726-1786
Prominent civil servant in the chancellery (Hofkanzlei) in Vienna, where he settled in 1753. He wrote numerous plays, many in the manner of Lessing, including Der Minister (1771).
Engraved by Johann Ernst Mansfeld 1749 – 1796
Size 16 x 10 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3575
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar 1643-1690
Succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697. Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg monarchy
Engraved by Abraham de Blois. 1679-1720
Painted by Charles Herbel 1656-1703
Size 40 x 30 cm
Price £48.00
Ref:3574
Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg 1638 -1701
Military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city’s defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat. Generations have idealized Starhemberg as saviour of the Western world and culture. By order of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, a statue was erected in his honour in 1872 at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, where the Battle of Vienna is thoroughly documented, with Starhemberg’s épée and armour on display.
Engraved by Thomas von Wiering circa 1684
Size 36 x 29 cm
(Area of lower right hand text missing as shown)
Price £78.00
Ref:3560
Jaques André le Noble d´Edlersberg 1779
Jakob Andreas von Edlersberg Captain of the palace of Schönbrunn. Vienna
Engraved by Carl von Pechwell. 1742–1789. after Ellensheim
Size 38 x 28 cm
Price £38.00
Ref:3572
Count Štefan XI. Ilešházi 1762-1838
István Gróf illésházi Illésházy (XI.) lord, politician, military officer. He was a colonel of the noble uprising against Napoleon , then a hereditary lord, and a politician sympathetic to the reform opposition from the beginning of the 1800s . From 1830, he was a director of the Hungarian Society of Scientists . The last scion of the Illésházy family, a large landowner .
Engraved by Adám Sándor Ehrenreich 1784-1852
Size 35 x 27 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3556
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria 1781-1850
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (25 April 1781 – 5 November 1850) was the third son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and Princess Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d’Este, last member and heiress of the House of Este. For much of the Napoleonic Wars, he was in command of the Austrian army.
Engraver Frenz Stöber 1795 – 1858
Drawn by Jacob Schakini 1820
Size 22 x 13 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3547
Ernest conte d’Abensperg 1608-1668
The House of Abensberg und Traun is the name of an ancient Austrian noble family, originally from the Upper Austrian Traungau. It is considered one of the oldest extant aristocratic families in Central Europe.
Engraver C.Meyssens
Size 15 x 12 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3546
Franz von Dietrichstein František Serafín z Ditrichštejna 1570-1636
Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein, of the Austrian and Moravian House of Dietrichstein, was Prince of Dietrichstein, Archbishop of Olomouc, Governor of Moravia and a Cardinal
Artist: Adriaen van Bloemen 1639-1697
Engraver Tobias Sadler 1641 – 1679
Size 27 x 16 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3542
Sigismund von Kollonitsch 1677-1751
Sigismund von Kollonitsch 1677-1751
Sigismund von Kollonitsch; Kollonitz, Kollonic, Kollonics, Collonicz was titular Bishop of Scutari, Bishop of Waitzen, and was from 1716 to 1722 Prince-Bishop of Vienna, then from 1722 to 1751 the first Prince-Archbishop of Vienna. He was raised in 1727 to the cardinalate by Pope Benedict XIII.
Artist: Jacob van Schuppen 1670-1751
Engraver Gustav Adolph Müller 1694-1767
Size 37 x 24 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3541