1731 Collection (page 3)

Alexander Leslie
ALEXANDER LESLIE Scottish military commander Date: 1731 - ?

Marie De LA Roche
MARIE SOPHIE von LA ROCHE German writer Date: 1731 - 1791

Antoine De LA Motte
ANTOINE HOUDAR de LA MOTTE French writer, holding a manuscript. Date: 1672 - 1731

John Hinchliffe
JOHN HINCHLIFFE English churchman, bishop of Peterborough. Date: 1731 - 1794

Freiherr Von Gundling 2
JAKOB PAUL Freiherr von GUNDLING : German statesman and historian, treated as a drunken buffoon at the court of Friedrich I - hence this depiction of him as a sot. Date: 1673 - 1731

Francis Grose, Pensive
FRANCIS GROSE Antiquary, depicted in the act of musing pensively on the mutability of things whereby time transmutes mans proudest artifacts into antiquities... Date: 1731 - 1791

Francis Grose, Antiqu
FRANCIS GROSE Antiquary, depicted in profile and wearing his spectacles. Date: 1731 - 1791

A Young Moor with a Still Life of Fruit, by Tobias Stranover (1684-1756). Date: 1731

Court society at Versailles A. D. 1731
Court society at Versailles A.D. 1731. Men and women socializing in a garden. Date c1890

Georg V. Breitenbauch
GEORG AUGUST von BREITENBAUCH German historian in the service of the duke of Weimar. Date: 1731 - 1817

Hy. Constantine Jennings
HENRY CONSTANTINE JENNINGS Virtuoso and collector Date: 1731 - 1819

Francis Grose on Site
FRANCIS GROSE antiquary, depicted investigating an old ruin Date: 1731 - 1791

Joseph Agathon
JOSEPH GONLIEU AGATHON French churchman. Date: 1731 - 1797 OR 8

William Aikman, Artist
WILLIAM AIKMAN Scottish artist Date: 1682 - 1731

Francis Grose / Col Eng
FRANCIS GROSE English antiquary

Islamic Iman
An IMAN, minister of a mosque Date: 1731

Arab at Prayer
An Arab traveler hobbles his camel while he pauses in his journey to turn towards Mecca and perform his midday prayers

Turks at Prayer - 1
The various postures of the Turks at their prayers - 1 of 2

Turks at Prayer - 2
The various postures of the Turks at their prayers - 2 of 2

VIOLINIST, 1731
A violinist

Olney Watermill
The fine old watermill at Olney, on the River Ouse, Buckinghamshire. It has associations with the poet William Cowper (1731 - 1800), who loved to stroll nearby

Chinese Sorcerers
CHINA Sorcerers and magicians

Temple of 1000 Idols
The temple of a thousand idols

Etna / Giant Enceladus
The giant Enceladus is buried under Mount Etna

Edw. Lord Thurlow 1822
EDWARD, 1st baron THURLOW Lord Chancellor

Edw. Lord Thurlow 1780
EDWARD, 1st baron THURLOW Lord Chancellor

Erasmus Darwin / Wright
ERASMUS DARWIN Writer and scientist, grandfather of Charles Darwin

Cowper / Holl
WILLIAM COWPER English poet in pensive mood

Freiherr Von Gundling 1
JAKOB PAUL Freiherr von GUNDLING : German statesman and historian, treated as a buffoon at the court of Friedrich I - hence this depiction of him as Silenus

Eudoxia / Russia / Hinton
EUDOXIA First wife of Peter I (divorced c1698)

Gent Plays Harpsichord
A gentleman plays a piece from one of Purcells operas, arranged for the harpsichord

Katarina Goethe / Mother
KATARINA ELISABETH GOETHE (1731 - 1808) Mother of Goethe

Zoroastrian Priest / 1731
A High Priest of the Zoroastrianism religion standing before a fire reading out a ritual text

Charles Churchill Satire
CHARLES CHURCHILL - English poet and satirist, depicted as a bear in torn clerical bands hugging a pot of porter and a club of lies

Saint-Medard, Cure
SAINT-MEDARD, Paris Marguerite Francoise du Chene is one of the convulsionnaires who is cured of her ailment, haemorrhage and fever, at the tomb of M. de Paris

Henry Cavendish
HENRY CAVENDISH mathematician and scientist, also a millionaire

Idols of Bible Times 4
Succoth Benoth - a hen - is the deity to which the heathen men of Babylon, in their blindness, bow down. (see Second Kings 17.31)

Idols of Bible Times 3
Adremelech, in the form of a peacock, is the deity to which the idolatrous Sepharvites sacrifice their children, burning them in fire. (see Second Kings 17.31)

Idols of Bible Times 2
Nibhaz, human but with a dogs head is one of the gods of the Avites, a people settled in Samaria by the king of Assyria. (see Second Kings 17.31)

Johann Hubner
JOHANN HUBNER German historian from Hamburg

Theodor Von Hase
THEODOR VON HASE German churchman, theologian of Bremen, pointing to a book - very likely, drawing our attention to his own writings

ERASMUS MONTANUS
Holbergs satire Erasmus Montanus derides the intellectual pretensions of college-educated scholars. It is still produced today, its mockery as apposite as ever

Jonas Bjornstahl
JONAS JAKOB BJORNSTAHL Swedish professor of Oriental Studies at Lund, traveler in Italy, author

Marie-Cath. Cadiere
MARIE-CATHERINE CADIERE, of Aix-en-Provence, accuses her spiritual director, Jesuit pere Girard, of bewitching and seducing her : he is acquitted but a public outcry ensues

Defoe in Pillory
DANIEL DEFOE In 1703, he is pilloried at Temple Bar, London, for publishing The Shortest Way with the Dissenters but the crowd acclaim him

Prevost: Manon Lescaut
Manon is taken away

Daniel Defoe / Anon Eng
DANIEL DEFOE English journalist and novelist

DEFOE (1661-1731)
Daniel Defoe writer

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