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 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though his wife Maria Theresa effectively executed the real powers of those positions. They were the founders of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty. From 1728 until 1737 he was Duke of Lorraine.
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Swiss-born general in the Austrian army during the French Revolutionary Wars, campaigned in the Rhineland during the War of the First Coalition and in Switzerland
Size 15 x 20 cms
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English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.
Size 11.5 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.
Artist: H. Wright Smith
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Size 11 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.
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Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature.
Artist: Lawrence
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Size 21 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
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William Motherwell, Scottish poet, antiquary and journalist.
Size 15 x 20 cms
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John Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate’s poetic output is prodigious, amounting, at a conservative count, to about 145,000 lines.:
Size 17 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Sir Richard Baker was a politician, historian and religious writer. He was the English author of the Chronicle of the Kings of England and other works
Size 16.5 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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