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István Illésházy 1762-1838 Hungarian soldier, chairman, politician

Count Illésházi István Illésházy  (Bratislava, April 30, 1762 – Baden bei Wien, Austria, July 30, 1838) was a nobleman, politician, and military officer. He was a colonel in the noble uprising against Napoleon, then hereditary lord, and a politician sympathetic to the opposition to the reform from the early 1800s. He was a director of the Hungarian Society of Scholars from 1830. He was the last scion of the large landowning nobleman Illésházy family.

Size 30 x 25 cm
Price £28.00

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Friedrich Sigmund Graf von Schärffenberg, d.1688

A son of Count Johann Wilhelm from his marriage to Maximiliana Countess Harrach . Count Friedrich Sigmund’s name is closely connected with the memory of Vienna’s rescue from the Turkish danger in 1683 . Count Friedrich Sigmund is one of those generals who left the island of Schütt with the corps of Count Leslie and rushed to the rescue of the afflicted Vienna . Later, in 1684, he witnessed the victories of Waitzen and Pesth and then the first unsuccessful siege of Ofen, where he was wounded. Before Neuhäusel he headed under Caprara1685 the storm and was sent with the news of the fall of the square to the imperial court camp

Size 18 x 15 cm
Price £14.00


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Franz Leopold von Nádasdy auf Fogaras 1708–1783

Franz Leopold von Nádasdy auf Fogaras (1708–1783) was an Austrian Field Marshal, and Ban of Croatia.
Franz Leopold von Nádasdy auf Fogaras was born on 30 September 1708 in Radkersburg, Austria into a Hungarian family of old nobility. He was the son of Graf Franz and Gräfin Rosa von Schrattenbach.

Engraver Johan Christian Leopold
Large engraving on paper size 50 x 35 cm

Price £95.00

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Franz Leopold von Nádasdy auf Fogaras 1708–1783

Franz Leopold von Nádasdy auf Fogaras (1708–1783) was an Austrian Field Marshal, and Ban of Croatia.
Franz Leopold von Nádasdy auf Fogaras was born on 30 September 1708 in Radkersburg, Austria into a Hungarian family of old nobility. He was the son of Graf Franz and Gräfin Rosa von Schrattenbach.

Engraver Schwab after Hochhauser
On paper size 37 x 24 cm

Price £65.00

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King Charles VI. 1685 – 1740 Holy Roman emperor


Charles VI on horseback, with a view of Vienna
(born Oct. 1, 1685, Vienna, Austria—died Oct. 20, 1740, Vienna), Holy Roman emperor from 1711 and, as Charles III, archduke of Austria and king of Hungary. … From 1704 to 1711 he attempted to impose his rule but succeeded only in Catalonia
Engraver Johann Conrad Reiff (d.1726)

49 x 39 cm inc margin

Price £65.00

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Gundakar Prince von Dietrichstein-Hollenburg 1623-1690

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Gundakar Reichsfürst von Dietrichstein also Gundacker von Dietrichstein (* 9 December 1623 in Hollenburg; † 25 January 1690 in Augsburg) was an Austrian nobleman, imperial minister, envoy and court official.  acquired Libochovice castle 1672

Subject gender: Male
Artist: Franciscus van der Steen

Size 24 x 18 cms

Price £28.00

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Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein 1636-1698

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Dietrichstein was the name of a Bohemian and Austrian noble family.
Maximilian von Dietrichstein was created Graf von Dietrichstein 1612 and his uncle Franz Seraph was elevated as Fürst von Dietrichstein zu Nikolsburg 1624. Nikolsburg is now known as Mikulov, Czech Republic

Artist Johann Borcking 1670

Size 25 x 18

Price £40.00

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Friedrich Wilhelmi 1788-1852

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Friedrich Wilhelm Wilhelmi, actually Friedrich Wilhelm von Pannwitz (* 21 April 1788 in Schlichow, Lower Lusatia; † 2 May 1852 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian actor.
He came from the Prussian noble family Pannwitz. At the age of 19, he entered Prussian military service and experienced the defeat against Napoleon at the Battle of Jena.

Artist/Engraver: Josef Kriehuber 1800-1876

Size 33 x 24 cms

Price £28.00

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