Antique Portrait of Alexander Pope by J. Collyer

Antique portrait titled 'Eminentiss e Reverendiss Principe d Trojano (..)'. Portrait of Cardinal Troiano Acquaviva d'Aragona. This print originates from the series 'Illustri fatti fa...

Antique portrait titled 'Willem Karel Hendrik Friso'. Portrait of William Charles Henry Friso of Orange. Artists and Engravers: Pieter Tanje (1706-1761) was an 18th century Dutch ...

Antique portrait titled 'Thomas Fairfax General du Parlement'. Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by P. Dre...

Antique print titled 'John Duke of Bedford Regent of France'. John Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford, 1389 - 1435. 3rd son of Henry IV, King of England; Reg...

Portrait of the Painter Johann Kepezky is an original Etching and Mezzotint realized in 1734 by Johann Jakob Haid (Kleineislingen, 1704 - Augsburg, 1767). Signed and dated in the pl...

English Georgian style gilt framed painting portrait of 18th Century nobleman with book. (Sir Norton Schell) Previously punctured

A very nice portrait of a gentleman in a rosewood frame. On paper, under glass with early frame. 13 inches high, 11.5 inhces wide.

This is an 18th century copperplate engraved portrait of Joseph Addison, Esq. by Jacobus Houbraken after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, from "The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain", published in London in 1748 by John & Paul Knapton. It depicts a bust portrait of Addison in an ornamental oval. He is turned to his right, but he is looking directly at the viewer. He is wearing a dark coat over a white shirt. Below the oval are items relating to plays, music, as well as the rod of Asclepius and books lying in foreground on the right. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. he founded The Spectator magazine with his friend Richard Steele. In 1712, Addison wrote his most famous work, "Cato, a Tragedy". It focussed on the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, He was dealing with issues of individual liberty versus government tyranny. The play was particularly popular in America. It is credited as an inspiration for the American Revolution. General George Washington had Cato performed for the Continental Army at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-78. Several famous quotations from the American Revolution were inspired by passages in Cato, including: Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death!", inspired by Act II, Scene 4: "It is not now time to talk of aught, But chains or conquest, liberty or death.") and Nathan Hale...