John Law was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under the Duke of Orleans, who served as regent for the youthful king, Louis XV.
Size 10 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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English author, contributed many papers to the Gentleman’s Magazine, and for a long period communicated the monthly ‘Meteorological Diary’ to that periodica
Artist: J.Jackson
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Size 12 x 17 cms
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English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
Artist: J.Thomson
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Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Anne of Denmark (Danish: Anna; 12 December 1574 – 2 March 1619) was Queen of Scotland from her marriage to James VI and I on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until her death in 1619.
Subject gender: Female
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Size 10 x 16 cms
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British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, jurist, and antiquary
Artist: Vanderbank
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Size 14 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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British Army officer who served in three major wars during the eighteenth century. He rose to distinction during the Seven Years’ War when he fought in Germany and participated in the British attacks on Belle Île and Cuba.
Artist: Mansfield
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Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC, known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British politician who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain
Size 8.5 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Rear-Admiral Frederick William Beechey FRS was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer.
Size 8 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
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Sir John Fortescue of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, was Chief Justice of the King’s Bench and was the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliae, first published posthumously circa 1543, an influential treatise on English law.
Artist: T.Cook
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Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Ernest Augustus was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death in 1851. As the fifth son of George III of the United Kingdom and Hanover, he initially seemed unlikely to become a monarch, but none of his elder brothers had a legitimate son.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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