István Gróf illésházi Illésházy (XI.) lord, politician, military officer. He was a colonel of the noble uprising against Napoleon , then a hereditary lord, and a politician sympathetic to the reform opposition from the beginning of the 1800s . From 1830, he was a director of the Hungarian Society of Scientists . The last scion of the Illésházy family, a large landowner .
Engraved by Adám Sándor Ehrenreich 1784-1852
Size 35 x 27 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3556
Fieldmarshall Lieutenant of the Garde Noble Hongroise. Father in law of Clemens von Metternich. The House of Zichy (of Zich and Vásonykő) is the name of a Magyar family of the Hungarian nobility, conspicuous in Hungarian history from the latter part of the 13th century onwards.
Engraved by Adám Sándor Ehrenreich 1784-1852
Size 35 x 27 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3555
When he was elected in 1570, Venice was preparing for war against the Turks who, eager to take possession of the island of Cyprus , in Venetian hands since 1480 , had set up a powerful fleet to conquer it. In the period 1570-71 things went badly on the island which, soon, despite a hard fight for the possession of Nicosia and the strenuous resistance of Famagusta (where the commander Marcantonio Bragadin , having surrendered with the garrison, was skinned alive), fell into enemy hands.
Engraved by Stefano Scolari circa 1650
Size Oval 33 x 28 cm
Price £48.00
Ref:3573
Joseph Esterházy was the son of Franz Esterházy (1641-1683) and his wife Katalin Thököly (1655-1701), the eldest daughter of the large landowner Stephan II Thököly . Joseph had five other siblings (three sisters and two brothers) who survived to adulthood. His older brother Anton (Hungarian Antal) Esterházy (1676–1722) was a kuruc general and fought alongside Franz II Rákóczi ( Hungarian Wars of Independence ) against Habsburg rule in Hungary.
Engraved by Francis Leoplod Schmitner 1754
Size 22 x 16 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3552
Chief Captain of Jászok and Kunok 1847
Artist: Szerelmey Miklós 1803-1875
Size 33 x 25 cm
Price £35.00
Napoleon III was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. His wife was Eugénie de Montijo
Engraver. Johann Haller. Vienna
Size 35 x 27 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3549
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria 1781-1850
Engraver Frenz Stöber 1795 – 1858
Drawn by Jacob Schakini 1820
Size 22 x 13 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3547
The House of Abensberg und Traun is the name of an ancient Austrian noble family, originally from the Upper Austrian Traungau. It is considered one of the oldest extant aristocratic families in Central Europe.
Engraver C.Meyssens
Size 15 x 12 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3546
Italian leader of the forces of Holy Roman emperor Charles V against the French king Francis I.
Size 19 x 15 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3545
Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy was the third son of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and was Viceroy of Sicily between 1622 and 1624
Size 18 x 12 cm
Price £22.00
Ref:3544