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Pyotr Rumyantsev 1725-1796

Count Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky was one of the foremost Russian generals of the 18th century, and one of the great military commanders in universal history between 1618 and 1905.Rumyantsev used mobile divisional squares for the first time in history as opposed to linear battle orders and initiated the formation of light (jaeger) battalions in the Russian Army, which operated in a scattered order.
He governed Little Russia in the name of Empress Catherine the Great from the abolition of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1764 until Catherine’s death 32 years later. Monuments to his victories include the Kagul Obelisk in Tsarskoye Selo (1772), the Rumyantsev Obelisk on Vasilievsky Island (1798–1801), and a galaxy of Derzhavin’s odes.

Size 9 x 9 cm

Price £18.00

STK.3594

Maria Theresa Empress of Austria 1717-1780

Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure (in her own right). She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Galicia and Lodomeria, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, and Holy Roman Empress.
Size 17 x 11 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3593

Martha Hatfield (née Nesbit) 1652


‘the wise virgin,’ the daughter of Anthony Hatfield, by his wife Faith Westley, was born at Leighton, Yorkshire, 27 Sept. 1640. The Hatfields were puritans. In April 1652 Martha was seized with an illness which the physicians were unable to define, but which seems to have been a form of catalepsy. For seventeen days she lay stiff and was unable to speak, and it was said that she could neither see nor hear. When she recovered her voice she uttered rambling recollections of pious discourses abounding in quotations of Scripture.

Artist: James Caulfield 1794
Size 24 x 19 cm

Price £18.00

Ref:3592

Elizabeth Paulet. 1594–1656


Elizabeth Devereux (née Paulet), Countess of Essex
Second wife of 3rd Earl of Essex, and later wife of Sir Thomas Higgons

Artist: William Hollar
Size 13 x 10 cm

Price £18.00

Ref:3591

Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden 1626-1671


He was the 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.
Artist: Paul Fürst 1608-1666
Size  10 x 6 cm

Price £14.00

Ref:3590

Johannes Baro de Gojis 1650


Johann von Geyso (1593 – 1661) was a German nobleman and General-Lieutenant, who fought during the course of the Thirty Years’ War. After studying in a Dutch military academy, Geyso fought as a mercenary in the armies of Sweden, Bohemia, Denmark and the German Protestant Union. In 1628, having gained significant experience in warfare he returned to his native Hesse-Kassel which he served until the end of the Thirty Years’ War, reaching the rank of commander in chief of the Langraviate’s forces and becoming ennobled.
Artist: Paul Fürst 1608-1666
Size  9 x 6 cm

Price £14.00

Ref:3589

Friedrich V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach 1594-1659

Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (6 July 1594, Sulzburg, Hochschwarzwald – 8 September 1659, Durlach) was a German nobleman, who ruled as margrave of Baden-Durlach from 1622 to his death. He was succeeded by his son Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach.

Size 9.5 x 6 cm

Price £14.00

Ref:3586

John Hampden 1595-1643 English parliamentarian

One of the central figures at the start of the English Revolution. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1621, eight years before Charles I dissolved Parliament. Ship Money was a tax sometimes levied on coastal towns in wartime to pay for ships to protect the country from invasion. Charles, no longer receiving money from Parliament, in 1635 extended the Ship Money tax to include inland towns and counties. This attempt to create a new form of taxation without parliamentary sanction was resisted by Hampden, who refused to pay the levy. The king was unable to collect Ship Money, and was forced to recall Parliament in 1640. Hampden was one of the five MPs selected by Charles I for impeachment in 1642.

Artist/Engraver Chapman after Jacobus Houbraken
Size 14 x 10cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3695

Ludovico Maria Sforza 1452-1508

Ludovico Maria Sforza, also known as Ludovico il Moro, and called the “arbiter of Italy” by historian Francesco Guicciardini, was an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.

Artist/Engraver
Size 15 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3694

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