German operatic soprano.
Artist: Rauch
Date:
Size 11 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2461
Tag Archives: Germany
Maria Anna Carolina Granduchess of Toscana
Marie Anna of Saxony (15 November 1799 – 24 March 1832), (full name: Maria Anna Carolina Josepha Vincentia Xaveria Nepomucena Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal Johanna Antonia Elisabeth Cunigunde Gertrud Leopoldina), was a princess of Saxony. She became Grand Duchess of Tuscany by her marriage to Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Artist: H.Schmidt
Date:
Size 6 x 8 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:755
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (3 July 1676 – 7 April 1747)
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau from 1693 to 1747. He was also a Generalfeldmarschall in the Prussian Army.
Artist: Busch
Date:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:758
Melchior, Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt
Melchior Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt was an Imperial Field Marshal. He fought in the Thirty Years’ War first under Albrecht von Wallenstein and Matthias Gallas, then received an independent command in Westphalia.
Date:
Size 7 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2764
Albert I of Habsburg (Albrecht I) 1255-1308
Albert I of Habsburg, the eldest son of King Rudolf I of Germany and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenberg, was a Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 and King of Germany from 1298 until his assassination.
Artist: J.Blaschke
Date:
Size 8 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2308
Christian Augustus Count Palatine of Sulzbach 1622-1708
Born in Sulzbach as the eldest son of Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach and Hedwig of Holstein-Gottorp. He succeeded his father in August 1632, at the age of 10. Christian Augustus was a tolerant ruler. He granted his citizens the right to choose their Christian denomination and introduced the Simultaneum, whereby churches had both Protestant and Catholic services. In 1666 he permitted Jews to settle in the Duchy of Sulzbach and, due to his interest in mysticism and the Kabbalah, allowed a Hebrew print-shop. Under his rule, Sulzbach also became an intellectual center and the site of a regionally significant printing industry.
Size 8.5 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2297
Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg 1676-1733
Duke Eberhard was the tenth Duke of Württemberg, from 1692 until 1733
For his time he was a very tolerant ruler, commonly noted by modern scholars as “enlightened.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1889
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1691-1750
Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary; and Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to Emperor Charles VI. She was renowned for her delicate beauty and also for being the mother of Empress Maria Theresa.
Size 9.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2922
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert 1715-1769
German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:499
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner 1719-1800
German mathematician and epigrammatist. He was known in his professional life for writing textbooks and compiling encyclopedias rather than for original research. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was one of his doctoral students, and admired the man greatly.
Size 12 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:494