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Sir William Webb Follett 1796-1845

Sir William Webb Follett 1796-1845
Attorney-General
He was called to the Bar in 1824, and joined the western circuit in the following year. When Sir Robert Peel formed his administration in 1834, Follett was appointed solicitor general, and at the same time he was made a king’s counsel and received a knighthood. The following year Follett was elected as MP for Exeter. He continued his private practice and was reputed to be the greatest advocate of his generation. In 1844 he was appointed as Attorney General.

Engraved by Ryall
Drawn by Chalon
Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins

Price £16.00

Ref:3675

Mark Ker c.1522-1584 Abbot of Newbattle

The second son of a wealthy Borders family, the Kers of Cessford, Mark Ker was appointed the abbot of Newbattle Abbey. He was able to take advantage of the Reformation, quickly embracing the new Protestant religion and taking ownership of the abbey and its sizeable estates when the Roman Catholic Church was outlawed. Ker’s son, also named Mark, was created the Earl of Lothian, and the line has subsequently become the Marquesses of Lothian.

Total size approximatley 12 x 9.1/2 inches

Engraved by R.Roberts

Price £22.00

Ref:3674

Archduke Albrecht of Austria, Duke of Teschen 1817-1895

Archduke Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf Dominik of Austria, Duke of Teschen, was an Austrian Habsburg general. He was the grandson of Emperor Leopold II and one of the chief military advisors of Emperor Francis Joseph I.

Artist/Engraver Weger of Leipzig

*Old damage right side*
Size 27 x 19 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3691

Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden 1626-1671

Second son of Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden and Catharina Ursula von Hohenzollern–Hechingen. He was also the uncle of Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
The first Reichs-Generalfeldmarschall of the Reichsarmee in 1664, he fought against Sweden in Pomerania and against the Turks in Hungary at the Battle of Saint Gotthard. He was Governor and head of the General staff in Warasdin, Croatia, which was part of the Holy Roman Empire (1198–1806).

Artist/Engraver Johann Hoffmann (1629-1698)
Size 36 x 27 cms
Price £48.00

Ref:3672

Ludwig Konrad, Graf von Lehrbach 1750-1805

Austrian ambassador in Munich, 1795 ambassador in Berlin, Regensburg and Basel, 1796 sent by the emperor to Tyrol to support the resistance against the French army. Later Austrian envoy to the Rastatt Congress, probably falsely suspected by the Prussian side of being the mastermind of the Rastatt envoy murder, died in 1805

Artist/Engraver Gebrüder Klauber 1800, Augsburg after Josef SCHÖPF 1745-1822
Size 44 x 30 cms
Price £48.00

Ref:3671

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor 1685-1740

Archduke Charles (baptized Carolus Franciscus Josephus Wenceslaus Balthasar Johannes Antonius Ignatius), the second son of the Emperor Leopold I and of his third wife, Princess Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, was born on 1 October 1685.

Artist/Engraver Muller after Lippold
Size 28 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3666

Ernst Gideon von Laudon 1717-1790

Ernst Gideon von Laudon, since 1759 Freiherr von Laudon (originally Laudohn or Loudon; was a Baltic German-born Austrian military officer and one of the most successful opponents of the Prussian king Frederick the Great.

Artist/Engraver Joh Martin 1778
Size 23 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3664

Humprecht Jan Czernin 1628-1682

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

Don Juan of Austria 1547-1578

Spanish admiral and governor, known to Elizabethans as Don John. Born in Regensburg, Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles V, was brought to Brussels, where his mother married. In 1550 Charles had the boy, called Jeromín, taken to Spain by a servant couple, and then, in 1554, transferred to the castle of his chief of household, Don Luis de Quijada, and his wife, Doña Magdalena de Ulloa, at Villagarcía de Campos.

Artist/Engraver Jacob Matham (extensive text verso)
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3659

Theoklitos Polyeidis 1698-1759

Greek scholar, teacher, translator, priest and monk during the period of the Modern Greek Enlightenment.
His most notable work was the Oracles of Agathagelos (Οι χρησμοί του Αγαθάγγελου) which was written c. 1750, and had a huge appeal in the court of Catherine II in Petersburg and greatly enhanced philhellenism in the European cities he personally visited. The Oracles of Agathagelos was also later republished by Rigas Feraios, promoting the revolutionary spirit of the subjugated Greeks, because they prophesied the future liberation of the Greeks.

Artist/Engraver Johann Georg Schmidt 1733
Size 18 x 13 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3655