1759 Collection (page 4)

Thomas Sanderson
THOMAS SANDERSON poet and schoolteacher Date: 1759 - 1829

Jean Ant. Rossignol
JEAN ANTOINE ROSSIGNOL French jeweler turned revolutionary, brave but stupid, useless as a soldier so turned to plotting, unsuccessful, condemned and died in exile in Madagascar. Date: 1759 - 1802

CLARINDA PLAQUE
Memorial plaque of Clarinda (real name Agnes Maclehose), Edinburgh. She had an affair with ROBERT BURNS in 1788 and corresponded with him as Clarinda to his Sylvander. Date: 1759 - 1841

Pierre Joseph Redoute -2
PIERRE JOSEPH REDOUTE Flemish-born botanical artist in France Date: 1759 - 1840

Pierre Joseph Redoute -1
PIERRE JOSEPH REDOUTE Flemish-born botanical artist in France Date: 1759 - 1840

Antoine Ravrio
ANTOINE ANDRE RAVRIO French artist and writer Date: 1759 - 1814

Antoine Comte Rampon
ANTOINE GUILLAUME. comte RAMPON French military commander Date: 1759 - 1842

Dominique De Pradt
DOMINIQUE DE PRADT French churchman, statesman and diplomat. Date: 1759 - 1837

Richard Porson - 3
RICHARD PORSON Classical scholar, depicted in the form of an antique bust as befits the professor of Greek at Cambridge University. Date: 1759 - 1808

Richard Porson - 1
RICHARD PORSON Classical scholar Date: 1759 - 1808

Richard Porson - 2
RICHARD PORSON Classical scholar, professor of Greek at Cambridge University. Date: 1759 - 1808

William Pitt (Younger)
WILLIAM PITT (the younger) statesman Date: 1759 - 1806

Louise Duchesse Orleans
LOUISE HENRIETTE de Bourbon- Conti, duchesse d ORLEANS first wife of duc Louis Philippe I, daughter of Louis Armand II prince de Conti. Date: 1726 - 1759

Charles Edmund Nugent
CHARLES EDMUND NUGENT British naval officer Date: 1759 - 1844

Graf Von Montgelas
MAXIMILIAN JOSEPH, graf von MONTGELAS, Bavarian statesman, minister of foreign affairs and of finances AND of the interior, earning the Grand Eagle of the Legion of Honour. Date: 1759 - 1838

Aubin Louis Millin
AUBIN LOUIS MILLIN French antiquary and naturalist Date: 1759 - 1818

Vincenzo Lunardi - 1
VINCENZO LUNARDI Italian aviator who made many balloon ascents in England. Date: 1759 - 1806

Vincenzo Lunardi - 2
VINCENZO LUNARDI Italian aviator who made many balloon ascents in England. Date: 1759 - 1806

Sir Thomas Louis
SIR THOMAS LOUIS British naval commander, rear- admiral of the White Squadron during the war against France. Date: 1759 - 1807

Comte De LA Riboisiere
JEAN AMBOISE BASTON, comte de LA RIBOISIERE French military commander Date: 1759 - 1812

James Knowles
JAMES KNOWLES lexicographer with his autograph Date: 1759 - 1840

August Wilhelm Iffland
AUGUST WILHELM IFFLAND German writer and actor Date: 1759 - 1814

Julius Caesar Ibbetson
JULIUS CAESAR IBBETSON artist Date: 1759 - 1817

John Johnson
JOHN JOHNSON churchman and writer with his autograph Date: 1759 - 1833

Isabella McHss. Hertford
ISABELLA ANN, marchioness of HERTFORD (nee Ingram-Shepherd) wife of Francis, second marquis. Date: 1759 - 1834

Florence Hensey
FLORENCE HENSEY Irish-born spy who served the French during the Seven Years War, was condemned to be hanged but reprieved and lived to spy again... Date: 1714? - 1759+

Edward Hawke - 2
EDWARD first baron HAWKE British naval commander who distinguished himself at La Rochelle 1747 and Quiberon Bay 1759; later First Lord of the Admiralty, Date: 1705 - 1781

HANDEL, George Frideric (1685-1759). German Baroque composer, naturalized British in 1726. Oil on canvas

Schiller, Friedrich von (1759-1805). German poet and playwright. Wilhelm Tell. Edition of Leipzig, 1922. Etching

AGREDA, Esteban de (1759-1842). Faun. Neoclassicism. Terra-cotta

John Marquess Camden
JOHN JEFFERIES PRATT, earl (later marquess) CAMDEN Statesman : Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Date: 1759 - 1840

Handel (Denner)
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL (Georg Friedrich) German musician in England Date: 1685 - 1759

Il Capitano Vincenzo Lunardi, nato in Lucca li 3 gennajo 1759, che esequi il suo XIII viaggio, aereo in Napoli li 13 settembre 1789. Head-and-shoulders portrait of Italian balloonist Vincent Lunardi

A north view of Fort Royal in the island of Guadaloupe, when

Rto. del Capitan dn. Vincente Lunardi. Nacio en Lucca el dia 11 de enero de 1759... Head-and-shoulders portrait of Italian balloonist Vincent Lunardi

Samuel Johnsons House
DR SAMUEL JOHNSONs house at 17 Gough Square, off Fleet Street, London. Johnston lived here from 1748 - 1759. Date: built 1700

Harewood House Hallway
Harewood House, near Leeds, Yorkshire, a stately home built (1759) for the Lascelles family, whose fortune came from haberdashery and Customs work in the West Indies. Date: built 1759 - 1769

William Collins, Writer
WILLIAM COLLINS Writer whose poetical career commenced at age 12 (this engraving shows him at 14); friend of Johnson and other luminaries of the time. Date: 1721 - 1759

Thomas Bradbury
THOMAS BRADBURY Congregational churchman Date: 1677 - 1759

Statue of Goethe and Schiller, Weimar, 1858
Engraving showing the joint statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), the German writers, at Weimar, Germany, 1858

Robert Burns Statue, 1844
Engraving showing the Robert Burns statue by Flaxman (centre) surrounded by two scenes from his life and another portrait

Candadian regimental Colours placed on the Wolfe Monument in
The Colours of several Canadian battalions and one artillery battery are seen placed on the monument to General James Wolfe in Westminster Abbey

Eddystone Lighthouse Lantern, 1882
Engraving showing the difference between the six-wick burner lantern used in Douglasss Eddystone lighthouse of 1882 (on left)

The Eddystone Lighthouse, 1879
Engraving of the Eddystone lighthouse built by Smeaton in 1759 and the foundations of the new lighthouse, designed by Sir James Douglass

William Pitt (1759-1806)
Engraving of William Pitt, the second son of the Earl of Chatham, who came to be known as Pitt the Younger. In 1783, Pitt became Britains youngest Prime Minister, by taking the post at the age of 24

Pitt, Miniature
William Pitt the Younger Statesman

Handel Birthplace / Halle
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL German-English composers birthplace at Halle, Saxony

Joseph Ames
JOSEPH AMES Bibliographer and antiquary

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