Artist/Engraver Johann Alexander Boner
Size 30 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3608
Rinaldo d’Este 1618-1672
Cardinal Rinaldo d’Este was born in 1618, the son of Alfonso III d’Este, Duke of Modena and Isabella of Savoy. He was the brother of Francesco d’Este who succeeded his father as Duke of Modena.. He was elected Bishop of Reggio Emilia in December 1650 and participated in the Papal conclave of 1655 which elected Pope Alexander VII, the conclave of 1667, which elected Pope Clement IX and the conclave of 1669–1670, which elected Pope Clement X. On 24 August 1671 he opted for the order of bishops and was appointed Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina.
Subject nationality: Italian
Subject gender: Male
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Size 22 x 16 cms
Price £25.00
Ref:847
Cardinal Álvaro Cienfuegos 1657-1739
Charles of Austria named Cienfuegos his envoy to Portugal and retained him as an advisor. At the end of the war of 1714, Charles VI, then emperor, called him to Venice and in 1720 succeeded in having him named cardinal. In 1722 he was consecrated bishop of Catania and in 1724 archbishop of Monreal. Cienfuegos had to renounce his archbishopric when the Bourbons occupied the kingdom of the two Sicilies. He was then given the see of Fünfkirchen by the emperor (1735), although he continued to live in Rome as the emperor’s legate and held important posts in Roman congregations until his death.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2866
Nicolò Acciaioli 1629-1719
Niccolò Acciaiuoli, or Acciaioli or Acciajuoli , was an Italian cardinal. He belonged to the noble Florentine Acciaiuoli family, the third of the ten children of senator Ottaviano Acciaiuoli and Maria Acciauioli and was the uncle of Cardinal Filippo Acciaiuoli (1700 – 1766)
Size 8 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2821
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau 1676 –1747 “the Old Dessauer
Son of Johann Georg II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and of Henrietta of Orange. Prussian field marshal and reformer, inventor of the iron ramrod and the modern bayonet.
Artist: Johann David Nessenthaler 1717-1766
Size 35 x 22 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3528
Victor Frederick of Anhalt 1700-1765
German prince of the House of Ascania. He was Reigning prince of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg from 1721 to 1765
Artist: Johann Christopher Sysang
Size 32 x 21 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3527
Hans Erasmus Graf von Tattenbach 1631-1671
Count von Tattenbach, was governor of Styria, owned several dominions in what is now Slovenia, which was then called Lower Styria , and also owned properties in Silesia. He is described as weak in character, naive and complacent. Speculating on personal gain, he conspired with the anti-Habsburg Croatian and Hungarian magnates from 1667 in the magnate conspiracy. Betrayed by his own valet, he was arrested in the course of crushing the uprising and found guilty of high treason. As a result, a large part of his possessions was confiscated and on December 1, 1671 he was executed in front of the Graz town hall . The County of Reinstein, a fiefdom that also belonged to Tattenbach, then reverted to the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg .
Engraver Sigmund Gabriel Hipschmann 1639-1679
size 27 x 19 cms
Rare early engraving
Price £38.00
Ref:3527
Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC, FRS, FRSE was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.
Artist/Engraver: Weigel
Size 24 x 18 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3643
Lőrinc Orczy 1718-1789 Hungarian Lord lieutenant, general and poet.
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His articles, speeches, letters and poems appeared in the Magyar Hirmondo (1782. 95. Speech at the inauguration of Count József Teleki, Archbishop of Ugocsa County), in Magyar Musa (1788. III. Letter: Pest, Szent András hava 20. ), in Orpheus (II. 1790. Bucsuzása from the county of Abauj. Oct. 14, 1784.); in the Magyar Museum (from the last book of Agathon I. Wieland, translated by Lőrincz of Bold. baron Orczy, from the law book of Empress Katharina of Russia, which was printed in Petersburg, Russia in 1776, and his letters to Kazinczy: Tarna-Eörs Nov. 5, 1785, Nov. 1786 l.); In the Uj Magyar Muzeum (1853. I. Letters to Ferenc Kazinczy, Oct. 5, 1785, Nov. 1, 1786).
Artist Ehrenreich Sándor Ádám (1784-1852) after Sdunder
Size 30 x 25 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3524
István Illésházy 1762-1838 Hungarian soldier, chairman, politician
Count Illésházi István Illésházy (Bratislava, April 30, 1762 – Baden bei Wien, Austria, July 30, 1838) was a nobleman, politician, and military officer. He was a colonel in the noble uprising against Napoleon, then hereditary lord, and a politician sympathetic to the opposition to the reform from the early 1800s. He was a director of the Hungarian Society of Scholars from 1830. He was the last scion of the large landowning nobleman Illésházy family.
Size 30 x 25 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3523