Czech-born American stage actress. Arrived in the United States in 1867 and first performed at the Academy of Music in New York City, on October 9, 1867, managed by Max Maretzek. She spoke no English, only German and often worked with all English speaking casts.
Artist/Engraver August Weger 1823-1892 Leipzig
Size28 x 20cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3731/514
Humprecht Jan Czernin was the Habsburg imperial ambassador to Venice and Rome. He was appointed ambassador of King Leopold in Venice in 1659.
Humprecht died at the castle in Kosmonosy on 3 March 1682 at the age of 54 years. He was buried in the chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, but his heart was placed in a tin box and placed in the Czernin Chapel of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Stará Boleslav. The Czernin Palace was commissioned by him in the 1660s. He had also the Humprecht Castle in Sobotka built, named after him. It was built as his summer house and hunting castle in 1666–1668.
Artist/Engraver Johann Borcking 1670
Size 24 x 16 cms
Price £SOLD
Ref:3660
Humprecht Jan Czernin was the Habsburg imperial ambassador to Venice and Rome. He was appointed ambassador of King Leopold in Venice in 1659.
Humprecht died at the castle in Kosmonosy on 3 March 1682 at the age of 54 years. He was buried in the chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, but his heart was placed in a tin box and placed in the Czernin Chapel of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Stará Boleslav. The Czernin Palace was commissioned by him in the 1660s. He had also the Humprecht Castle in Sobotka built, named after him. It was built as his summer house and hunting castle in 1666–1668.
Artist/Engraver Johann Borcking 1670
Size 26 x 18cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3661
Count Ernst Adalbert of Harrach (Ernst Adalbert von Harrach; Czech: Arnošt Vojtěch hrabé z Harrach; 4 November 1598 – 25 October 1667) was an Austrian Catholic Cardinal who was appointed Archbishop of Prague and Prince-Bishop of Trento.
Artist/Engraver Picart
Size 20 x 15cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3657
George Illeshazy
Engraver Matthias Van Somer. Nuremberg 1665
Size 10 x 6 cm
Price £12.00
Ref:3543
Šebestián Kristián Zeidler (German: Sebastian Christian Zeidler, 1620 Tachov – 1689 Prague) was a Czech-German physician, university teacher and writer active mainly in Prague. In 1685 he was ennobled.
Size 19 x 13 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:834
imperial governor in Gradisca, ambassador in Venice
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Date:1722
Size 18 x 30 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2937
Samuel Martinius from Dražov printer owner, publisher and Lutheran religious writer. He came from the Czech Horovice In 1614, he finished his studies at the University of Prague with the rank of master and was ordained a priest. From 1621 he lived in exile in Germany, Netherlands and England.
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:580
Elizabeth Jane Weston was an English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry. She had the unusual distinction for a woman of the time of having her poetry published.
Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:883
Austrian Catholic Cardinal who was appointed Archbishop of Prague and Prince-Bishop of Trento. His name in Czech is Arnošt Vojtěch hrabě z Harrachu
Size 6 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:944