Scottish judge and politician, who served as Lord President of the Court of Session from 1661 to 1670. He was the son of John Gilmour, Writer to the Signet, and became an advocate on 12 December 1628.
Artist Charles Reuben Ryley 1752-1798
Size 22 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3749/515
Christina, a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. Her conversion to Catholicism and refusal to marry led her to relinquish her throne and move to Rome.
Size 12 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3748/515
Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, PC, JP was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer at the Battle of Solebay during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, he served as a captain in the Mediterranean Sea in operations against the Barbary pirates.
Engraver Thomas Cook 1775
Size 21 x 16 cms
Price £16.00
Ref:3745
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, KG, PC was an English nobleman and politician of the Spencer family. An able and gifted statesman, his caustic temper and belief in absolute monarchy nevertheless made him numerous enemies.
Engraver W.H.Mote 1836
Size 27 x 19 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3744
William Dunbar, M.A. was a Scottish Episcopal clergyman who served as the Bishop of Moray and Ross (1727–35) and Bishop of Aberdeen (1733–1745)
Artist H.Adlard
Size 25 x 17 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3743
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, KB, PC, who after 1665 styled himself as Prince William Cavendish, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts. He was a renowned horse breeder, as well as being patron of the playwright Ben Jonson and the intellectual group known as the Welbeck Circle.
Engraver W.H.Mote
Size 25 x 18 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3742
Anatole France, pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.
From a photo by E.O.Hope
Published by the Bookman 1914
Size 19 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Charlotte Nicholls, commonly known by her maiden name Charlotte Brontë, was an English novelist and poet, and was the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was first published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Photomechanical print by George Richmond. 1809-1896
Size 21 x 15 cms
Price £30.00
Ref:3738/512
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.
Photogravure by Lizzie Caswall Smith, published by George G. Harrap & Company,
Printed by The Edinburgh Press 1913
Size 20 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3737/513
English dramatist, translator and poet. He was a classical scholar whose work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman is seen as an anticipator of the metaphysical poets of the 17th century
Size 17 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
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