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Nathaniel Brassey Halhed 1751-1830

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Nathaniel Brassey Halhed was an English Orientalist and philologist. Halhad was born at Westminster, and was educated at Harrow School, where he began a close friendship with Richard Brinsley Sheridan. was member of parliament for Lymington, Hants. 

Engraved by White, published by Benjamin Crosby, after Isaac Cruikshank 1795 

Size 8 x 7 cms
Price £12.00

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Robert Ainslie 1766–1838

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Robert Ainslie was a Scottish lawyer, and one of Robert Burns’s long-term friends from his Edinburgh days. He was probably the closest confidant of Burns, whom he met first at a Masonic or Crochallan Fencibles event. Ainslie accompanied the poet on the first part of his Border Tour.

Artist J.Cochran
Size 27 x 21 cms
Price £14.00

 

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Wilson Barrett (as Marcus Superbus)1843-1904 manager, actor, and playwright

Wilson Barrett was an English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King at the Princess’s Theatre of London

Wilson Barrett as Marcus Superbus in The Sign of the Cross at Lyric Theater, photo W & D Downey Photographers.  Sepia tone photography. London, England, 1896.
Size 48 x 35 cms
Price £48.00

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Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond 1647-1702

 

Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.

Painted by  Jacob Huysmans and engraved by C. Rivers
Size 26 x 17 cms
Price £14..00

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John Charles Herries 1778-1855

Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Goderich’s government (1827-1828), Master of the Mint in the government of the Duke of Wellington (1828-1830), President of the Board of Trade (1830); Secretary at War under Sir Robert Peel’s first governement (1834-1835), President of the Board of Control in Lord Derby’s first adminstration (1852).

Engraved by S.Freeman

Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins

Price £16.00

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William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford 1767-1845

William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford, PC, was a British politician and judge. He served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1824 to 1829

Engraved by F.Halpin
Drawn by Thomas Lawrence
Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins

Price £16.00

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