Ralph Thoresby was an antiquarian, who was born in Leeds and is widely credited with being the first historian of that city. Besides being a merchant, he was a nonconformist, fellow of the Royal Society, diarist, author, common-councilman in the Corporation of Leeds, and museum keeper.
Artist/Engraver George Vertue 1712
Size 19 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3612
Pope was first noticed by Jacob Tonson who published his Pastorals in 1709. With The Rape of the Lock 1712, and his translations of Homer, Pope became the most formidable literary figure of his day, with a large circle of friends and enemies. Primarily a satirical poet and of unsurpassed metrical skill, he wrote ‘what oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed’. A friend of Swift & Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and famous in the history of landscape gardening for the grounds of his villa at Twickenham, he was revered as one of the great personalities of the age.
Artist: Charles Grignion,
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3061
Butler was a writer whose poem, Hudibras, published in three parts (1662, 1663 and 1678), was an immediate success. Based on his experiences in the households of the Puritan gentry, it is an envenomed satirical attack on Puritanism, written in cantering octosyllabics, full of puns and outrageous rhymes. Charles II enjoyed it, and for a century it was a bestseller.
Artist: Sir Peter Lely
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3057
Anna produced the humanitarian Tales of Pity on Fishing, Shooting and Hunting in 1814, and collaborated with her sister on collections of stories. In all, she published some thirty works, many being translated into French.
Subject gender: Female
Artist: George Henry Harlow
Size 13 x 11 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3053
Italian Renaissance humanist, Civil Servant and writer. Born in Pesaro and educated in Padua, Collenuccio first served the Sforza rulers of Pesaro, but was dismissed when Giovanni Sforza succeeded in 1483.
Size 15 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:852
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1519
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens was a French rationalist, author and critic of the Catholic Church, who was a close friend of Voltaire and spent much of his life in exile at the court of Frederick the Great
Artist: Frisch
Date:
Size 5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2845
Hungarian Jesuit priest, poet, writer and linguist.
Artist: Klime
Date:1790
Size 10 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:854
François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier, was a notable French politician and political writer during the First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy. He was the youngest of a large family belonging to the poorer nobility
Artist: N.Maurin
Date:
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2201
Jean-Baptiste Racine 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such “examples of neoclassical perfection” as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1682