1648 Gallery

Colchester, Essex, England - The Siege House

Colchester, Essex, England - The 15th century Siege House - Bullet holes from fighting during the Siege of Colchester during the English Civil War (1648) are still visible on the timber frame. Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

15th, 1648, 1930s, 30s, Architectural, Building, Century, Civil, Colchester, England, English, Essex, Half Timbered, House, Jun18, Siege, Thirties, Tudor, War

Baltrasar Gracian (1601-1658). Spanish writter and philosoph

Baltrasar Gracian (1601-1658). Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writter and philosopher. Arte de ingenio (1642, revised as Agudeza y arte de ingenio in 1648). Edition: Barcelona, 1757. Epicopal Library. Barcelona. Cataluna

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

1601 1658, 1648, 17th, Age, Agudeza, Arte, Baltasar, Barcelona, Baroque, Catalonia, Century, Conceptismo, De, Episcopal, Europe, Garcian, Golden, Gracian, Historical, History, Ingenio, Jesuits, Library, Literature, Modern, Morales, Oro, Period, Philosopher, Philosophy, Proto Existentialist, Siglo, Spain, Spanish, The, Work, Writter

J M De LA Motte Guyon

Jeanne Marie de la Motte GUYON French mystic whose system of devotion, Quietism, was so unpalatable to the French authorities that they put her in the Bastille for a while Date: 1648 - 1717

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1648, 1717, Authorities, Bastille, De, Devotion, French, Guyon, Historical, History, Jeanne, La, Marie, Motte, Mystic, Put, Quietism, System, Unpalatable