Scottish peer, scholar and publisher.
Artist: W.Hamilton
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1345
Mark Akenside 1721-1770
Poet and physician, best known for his poem The Pleasures of Imagination
Artist: A.Pond
Date:
Size 10 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1344
Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770
English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, he was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11.
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1343
Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet, Duc d’Albufera 1770 – 1826
The son of a silk manufacturer, Louis-Gabriel Suchet is considered to be one of Napoleon’s best marshals and he holds the distinction of being the only marshal who improved his reputation during the campaigns of the Peninsular War in Spain
Size 4.5 x 6 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1342
John Law of Lauriston 1671-1729
John Law was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under the Duke of Orleans, who served as regent for the youthful king, Louis XV.
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1341
Alexander Pope 1688-1744
Regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry—including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism—as well as for his translation of Homer
Artist: Posselwhite
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1340
Alexandra of Denmark Empress of India 1844-1925
Alexandra of Denmark was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress consort of India as the wife of King Edward VII.
Artist: Carl Mayer
Date:
Size 6.5 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1337
Sir Robert Peel 1788-1850
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice as Home Secretary. He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1336
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet 1778-1829
Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year
Artist: Toller
Date:1834
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1334
William Hawes 1736-1808
English physician and philanthropist, founder of the Royal Humane Society. As well as his work to spread the practice of resuscitation, he was concerned to relieve poverty in east London.
Artist: Bertonnier
Date:
Size 12 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1333