Tag Archives: British

Queen Mary I of England 1516-1558

Mary I , also known as Mary Tudor, and as “Bloody Mary” by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, King Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by Parliament, but during her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian persecutions.

Artist/Engraver Francis Delaram, published by Compton Holland 19th cent
Size 30 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3616

Jonathan Battishill 1738 -1801

English composer, keyboard player, and concert tenor. He began his career as a composer writing theatre music but later devoted himself to working as an organist and composer for the Church of England

Artist/Engraver J.Chapman
Size 18 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3609

Martha Hatfield (née Nesbit) 1652


‘the wise virgin,’ the daughter of Anthony Hatfield, by his wife Faith Westley, was born at Leighton, Yorkshire, 27 Sept. 1640. The Hatfields were puritans. In April 1652 Martha was seized with an illness which the physicians were unable to define, but which seems to have been a form of catalepsy. For seventeen days she lay stiff and was unable to speak, and it was said that she could neither see nor hear. When she recovered her voice she uttered rambling recollections of pious discourses abounding in quotations of Scripture.

Artist: James Caulfield 1794
Size 24 x 19 cm

Price £18.00

Ref:3592

Elizabeth Paulet. 1594–1656


Elizabeth Devereux (née Paulet), Countess of Essex
Second wife of 3rd Earl of Essex, and later wife of Sir Thomas Higgons

Artist: William Hollar
Size 13 x 10 cm

Price £18.00

Ref:3591

John Hampden 1595-1643 English parliamentarian

One of the central figures at the start of the English Revolution. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1621, eight years before Charles I dissolved Parliament. Ship Money was a tax sometimes levied on coastal towns in wartime to pay for ships to protect the country from invasion. Charles, no longer receiving money from Parliament, in 1635 extended the Ship Money tax to include inland towns and counties. This attempt to create a new form of taxation without parliamentary sanction was resisted by Hampden, who refused to pay the levy. The king was unable to collect Ship Money, and was forced to recall Parliament in 1640. Hampden was one of the five MPs selected by Charles I for impeachment in 1642.

Artist/Engraver Chapman after Jacobus Houbraken
Size 14 x 10cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3695

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

Major-General Sir Robert Henry Sale GCB 1782-1845

British Army officer who commanded the garrison of Jalalabad during the First Afghan War and was killed in action during the First Anglo-Sikh War.

Artist/Engraver E.Stodart after R.Moseley
Size 26 x 18 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3670

Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Graham, VC, GCB, GCMG 1831-1899

Senior British Army commander in the late 19th century and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces

Artist/Engraver E.Stodart
Size 26 x 17 cms
Price £16.00

Ref:3669

Colonel Francis Hacker 1618-1660


English soldier who fought for Parliament during the English Civil War and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.

Engraved by James Caulfield 1764-1826

Size 28 x 23 cm

Price £16.00

Ref:3362

Sir Joseph Banks 1743-1820 Explorer and botanist

Naturalist, patron of science and President of the Royal Society, 1778-1820. Banks sailed with Captain Cook to the Pacific on his first voyage aboard the Endeavour, 1768-71, and compiled a unique natural history collection. Banks held a position of great influence in the scientific world and he advised on ventures such as the Kew Botanic Gardens and the first British colonies in Australia.

Engraved by Wagstaff
Painted by Thomas Philips
Size 27 x 19 cm

Price £14.00

Ref:3340