French lawyer
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Ch. Bowier
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1447
Count Giovanni Francesco CACCIA 1540-1625
Italian jurist
Artist: Nargeol
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1446
Anne Claude de Caylus 1692-1765
Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus, marquis d’Esternay, baron de Bransac, French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters, was born in Paris. He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Anne de Tubières, comte de Caylus.
Artist: E.Conquy
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1445
Adam de Craponne 1526-1576
Adam de Craponne was a French engineer he built the channel bearing his name.
Artist: Dequevawller
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1444
Théophile Corret de la Tour d’Auvergne (Théophile-Malo de La Tour d’Auvergne-Corret) 1743-1800
French officer named by Napoleon “first grenadier of France”. He was also a celtomaniac antiquarian who introduced the words “dolmen” and “menhir” into general archaeological usage
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1443
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741-1790
Joseph II was Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 1780 until his death. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, and the brother of Marie Antoinette
Date:1765
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1442
Saint Mark
Saint Mark engraving by L.Hoffmann and published in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, Germany,1859.
Artist: Hoffmann
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1441
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein 1583-1634
Also von Waldstein, was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years’ War. His successful martial career made him one of the richest and most influential men in the Holy Roman Empire by the time of his death.
Artist: Van Dyck
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1440
Michel de l’Hôpital 1507-1573
Statesman, lawyer, and humanist who, as chancellor of France from 1560 to 1568, was instrumental in the adoption by the French government of a policy of toleration toward the Huguenots.
Artist: Blanchard
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1439
Jan Nieuwenhuijzen 1724-1806
Jan Nieuwenhuijzen was a Dutch Mennonite teacher and minister. He was first trained to be a book seller and in 1743 he entered the guild in Haarlem. He married the poet Gezina Wijnalda, a niece of Age Wijnalda in 1751.
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1438