Czech-born American stage actress. Arrived in the United States in 1867 and first performed at the Academy of Music in New York City, on October 9, 1867, managed by Max Maretzek. She spoke no English, only German and often worked with all English speaking casts.
Artist/Engraver August Weger 1823-1892 Leipzig
Size28 x 20cms
Price £14.00
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Humprecht Jan Czernin was the Habsburg imperial ambassador to Venice and Rome. He was appointed ambassador of King Leopold in Venice in 1659.
Humprecht died at the castle in Kosmonosy on 3 March 1682 at the age of 54 years. He was buried in the chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, but his heart was placed in a tin box and placed in the Czernin Chapel of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Stará Boleslav. The Czernin Palace was commissioned by him in the 1660s. He had also the Humprecht Castle in Sobotka built, named after him. It was built as his summer house and hunting castle in 1666–1668.
Artist/Engraver Johann Borcking 1670
Size 24 x 16 cms
Price £SOLD
Ref:3660
Humprecht Jan Czernin was the Habsburg imperial ambassador to Venice and Rome. He was appointed ambassador of King Leopold in Venice in 1659.
Humprecht died at the castle in Kosmonosy on 3 March 1682 at the age of 54 years. He was buried in the chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, but his heart was placed in a tin box and placed in the Czernin Chapel of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Stará Boleslav. The Czernin Palace was commissioned by him in the 1660s. He had also the Humprecht Castle in Sobotka built, named after him. It was built as his summer house and hunting castle in 1666–1668.
Artist/Engraver Johann Borcking 1670
Size 26 x 18cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3661
Šebestián Kristián Zeidler (German: Sebastian Christian Zeidler, 1620 Tachov – 1689 Prague) was a Czech-German physician, university teacher and writer active mainly in Prague. In 1685 he was ennobled.
Size 19 x 13 cms
Price £18.00
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Elizabeth Jane Weston was an English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry. She had the unusual distinction for a woman of the time of having her poetry published.
Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Austrian Catholic Cardinal who was appointed Archbishop of Prague and Prince-Bishop of Trento. His name in Czech is Arnošt Vojtěch hrabě z Harrachu
Size 6 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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Wenzel came from the Bohemian noble family of Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau and was the younger brother of Francis, Count of Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau. After studying law at Charles University in Prague and his Grand Tour, Kinsky entered the civil service. He became President of the Court of Appeal in 1688, Vice-Chairman of Bohemia in 1689, Privy and Conference Councilor, Supreme Court Judge in 1696 and Supreme Chamber Treasurer and Imperial Commissioner in the Bohemian Parliament in 1701.
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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The House of Czernin is a Czech noble family that was one of the oldest and most prominent noble families in the Kingdom of Bohemia. The family is a descendant family of the Habsburg family.
Artist: J.F. Leonart,
Date:
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Jerome of Prague was a Czech scholastic philosopher and theologian. Jerome was one of the chief followers of Jan Hus and was burned for heresy at the Council of Constance
Size 7 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (English: John Zizka of Trocnov and the Chalice; was a Czech general who was a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus and was a Radical Hussite and led the Taborites. Žižka was a successful military leader and is now a Czech national hero. He was nicknamed “One-eyed Žižka”, having lost one and then both eyes. Jan Žižka led Hussite forces against three crusades and never lost a single battle although he was completely blind in his last stages of life.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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