Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (Duchess of Cambridge) was the wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child, and seventh son, of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The longest-lived daughter-in-law of George III, she was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck, wife of George V.
Artist/Engraver
Size 29 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3630
Mary I , also known as Mary Tudor, and as “Bloody Mary” by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, King Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by Parliament, but during her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions.
Artist/Engraver Francis Delaram, published by Compton Holland 19th cent
Size 30 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3616
English composer, keyboard player, and concert tenor. He began his career as a composer writing theatre music but later devoted himself to working as an organist and composer for the Church of England
Artist/Engraver J.Chapman
Size 18 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3609
‘the wise virgin,’ the daughter of Anthony Hatfield, by his wife Faith Westley, was born at Leighton, Yorkshire, 27 Sept. 1640. The Hatfields were puritans. In April 1652 Martha was seized with an illness which the physicians were unable to define, but which seems to have been a form of catalepsy. For seventeen days she lay stiff and was unable to speak, and it was said that she could neither see nor hear. When she recovered her voice she uttered rambling recollections of pious discourses abounding in quotations of Scripture.
Artist: James Caulfield 1794
Size 24 x 19 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3592
Elizabeth Devereux (née Paulet), Countess of Essex
Second wife of 3rd Earl of Essex, and later wife of Sir Thomas Higgons
Artist: William Hollar
Size 13 x 10 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3591
One of the central figures at the start of the English Revolution. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1621, eight years before Charles I dissolved Parliament. Ship Money was a tax sometimes levied on coastal towns in wartime to pay for ships to protect the country from invasion. Charles, no longer receiving money from Parliament, in 1635 extended the Ship Money tax to include inland towns and counties. This attempt to create a new form of taxation without parliamentary sanction was resisted by Hampden, who refused to pay the levy. The king was unable to collect Ship Money, and was forced to recall Parliament in 1640. Hampden was one of the five MPs selected by Charles I for impeachment in 1642.
Artist/Engraver Chapman after Jacobus Houbraken
Size 14 x 10cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3695
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
Ref:3690
British Army officer who commanded the garrison of Jalalabad during the First Afghan War and was killed in action during the First Anglo-Sikh War.
Artist/Engraver E.Stodart after R.Moseley
Size 26 x 18 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3670
Senior British Army commander in the late 19th century and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces
Artist/Engraver E.Stodart
Size 26 x 17 cms
Price £16.00
Ref:3669
English soldier who fought for Parliament during the English Civil War and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.
Engraved by James Caulfield 1764-1826
Size 28 x 23 cm
Price £16.00
Ref:3362