Directed Wrens repairs to Westminster Abbey and gave facilities for Dryden’s burial
Artist: Michael Dahl
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3106
Thomas Sherlock 1678-1761 Bishop of London
Took part in Bangorian controversy and fell into disgrace
Artist: Simon Francois Ravenet,
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3105
Gilbert Burnet, 1643-1715 Lord Bishop Of Sarum (Salisbury)
Scottish theologian, religious leader. He was an influential bishop who offered confidential advise to William and Mary; wrote “History of His Time,” 1734.
Artist: John Riley
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3104
Jean Astruc 1684-1766
Professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture.
Artist: Louis Halbou.,
Size 15 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3103
Peter the Wild Boy 1713-1785
Peter was found in the Hertswold Forest by a party of hunters led by George I while on a visit to his Hanover homeland and brought to Great Britain in 1726 by order of his daughter Caroline of Ansbach Princess of Wales.
Artist: published by John Hinton,
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3102
Cosimo II de’ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany 1590-1621
Artist: Petrus Angelus
Size 30 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3486
Czuczor Gergely 1800–1866
Hungarian philologist and poet, a Benedictine monk. With John Fogarasi he compiled a Hungarian dictionary .
Artist/Engraver: Miklós Barabás 1810-1898
Size 23 x 15 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3496
Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle
Comte de Lasalle 1775-1809, French cavalry general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, often called “The Hussar General”. He first gained fame for his role in the Capitulation of Stettin. Over the course of his short career, he became known as a daring adventurer and was credited with many exploits; some true, others probably fanciful. Eventually, he fought on every front and was killed at the Battle of Wagram.
Artist/Engraver: Antoine-Jean Gros 1771-1835
Size 27 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3493
Friedrich Wilhelmi 1788-1852
Imperial royal court actor
Artist/Engraver: Josef Kriehuber 1800-1876
Size 33 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3492
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine
Charles IV 1604-1675,was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 to 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis, and again from 1661 until 1675 (his death).
Artist/Engraver: Johann Christoph Sartorius 1677
Size 33 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3491