He was the son of Johann Christoph II of Puchheim zu Krumbach and Eva Susanna of Hofkirchen. He married Countess Polixena of Leiningen-Dagsburg.
Size 12 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2180
Joseph Justus Scaliger 1540-1609
Joseph Justus Scaliger was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and ancient Egyptian history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands
Size 4 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1943
Karl de Stoute, Duke of Burgundy 1433-1477
Charles the Bold, baptised Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was the last Duke of Burgundy from the House of Valois. His early death at the Battle of Nancy at the hands of Swiss mercenaries fighting for René II, Duke of Lorraine was of great consequence in European history
Size 11.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1931
Eleonora Gonzaga. Duchess of Mantua 1630-1686
Eleonora Gonzaga was by birth Princess of Mantua, Nevers and Rethel from the Nevers branch of the House of Gonzaga and was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand III.
Artist: A.Bloem
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1911
Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne 1618-1679
Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne, Prince of Epinoy, Marquis of Roubaix and Count of Fauquemberg, was a nobleman from the Spanish Netherlands, a soldier and diplomat in the service of Philip IV of Spain and Charles II of Spain.
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:948
Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony, Grand Duchess of Tuscany 1796-1865
Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony was a daughter of Maximilian, Crown Prince of Saxony and his first wife Princess Carolina of Parma. She was by marriage Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1821 to 1824.
Artist: Gozzini
Date:1822
Size 13 x 23.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:833
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 6.5 x 10.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:582
Frank II of Borssele 1396-1470
Frank II of Borssele was a 15th-century Zeelandic nobleman. He was stadhouder of Holland and Zeeland, but is mainly known as the fourth husband of countess Jacqueline of Holland. He was the son of Floris van Borssele and Oda van Bergen, Lord of Sint Maartensdijk, Scherpenisse and Zuylen.
Artist/Engraver
Size 14 x 13 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3696
Edward Jenner FRS FRCPE 1749-1823
Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae (‘pustules of the cow’), the term coined by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox.
Artist/Engraver Schuster after Pernel
Size 20 x 17 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3690
Johann Wilhelm II, Graf von Würmbrand 1658-1716
Johann Wilhelm II, Elector Palatine (“Jan Wellem”) 1658-1716 of the Wittelsbach dynasty was Elector Palatine , Duke Palatine of Neuburg/Danube Duke of Jülich and Berg and Duke of Upper Palatinate.. From 1697 onwards Johann Wilhelm was also Count of Megen.
Artist Franz Lippold 1688-1768 /Johann Wilhelm Windter 1696-1765
Size 33 x 20
Price £40.00
Ref: 3502