Tag Archives: Writer

Lőrinc Orczy 1718-1789 Hungarian Lord lieutenant, general and poet.

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

Benjamin Hoadly 1676-1761

Benjamin Hoadly (14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy.

Artist: Nathaniel Hone

Size 14 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

Ref: 3108

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1688-1763

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris.
Artist: Miger
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2110

Dávid Baróti Szabó 1739-1819

Hungarian Jesuit priest, poet, writer and linguist.
Artist: Klime
Date:1790
Size 10 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:854

Antoine Houdar de la Motte 1672-1731

French author. De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux, was a complete failure, and so depressed the author that he contemplated joining the Trappistse
Artist: de Delpech
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2168

Nicolao Sottile 1751-1832

Italian priest & writer
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Francois
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1473

Elizabeth Jane Weston 1582-1612

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

Ref:883

Márton György Kovachich 1744-1821

Hungarian law historian, librarian, source researcher
Artist: Szechenyi
Date:1744
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1766

Jacques Auguste de Thou 1553-1617

French historian and collector, called ‘president’ after his rank in the Paris Parliament
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:955

François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier 1755-1838

François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier, was a notable French politician and political writer during the First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy. He was the youngest of a large family belonging to the poorer nobility
Artist: N.Maurin
Date:
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2201

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