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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Peasant from the Yonne who rose to become librarian at the court of Lorraine. His Mémoires, written c. 1733–47, but published in full only in the 20th century
Artist: Geille
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the “Jacquard loom”), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer.
Artist: Bonnefond
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Albert I of Habsburg, the eldest son of King Rudolf I of Germany and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenberg, was a Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 and King of Germany from 1298 until his assassination
Size 8.5 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Peter the Great, Peter I or Peter Alexeyevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death in 1725
Artist: J.Thomson
Date:
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Leopold II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792, and Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was the earliest opponent of capital punishment in modern history.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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