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Background imageWrote Collection: Islamic art. Tombstone of Muhammad. Signed: Ibrahim wrote. L

Islamic art. Tombstone of Muhammad. Signed: Ibrahim wrote. L
Islamic art. Tombstone of Muhammad, son of al- Abbas, son of Muhammad, son of Utba, son of al-Hasan, son of al-Hasan. Signed: Ibrahim wrote. Late 9th-early 10th century. Basalt. 75x31x33 cm

Background imageWrote Collection: Caricature of Augustus Harris, British actor and dramatist

Caricature of Augustus Harris, British actor and dramatist
Caricature of Augustus Harris (1852-1896), British actor, dramatist and impresario, transformed into a goose -- Not " Old Mother Goose" but Master Augoosetus

Background imageWrote Collection: Benjamin Godard

Benjamin Godard
BENJAMIN GODARD - French musician, who wrote operas, ballets, chamber music and a dramatic symphony Tasso, but who is best remembered for his popular salon music. Date: 1849 - 1895

Background imageWrote Collection: Gustav Freytag - 1

Gustav Freytag - 1
GUSTAV FREYTAG German writer of liberal middle-class views, wrote plays and realistic novels, also historical fiction. Date: 1816 - 1895

Background imageWrote Collection: Gustav Freytag - 3

Gustav Freytag - 3
GUSTAV FREYTAG German writer of liberal middle-class views, wrote plays and realistic novels, also historical fiction. In his latter years. Date: 1816 - 1895

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Gustav Freytag - 2
GUSTAV FREYTAG German writer of liberal middle-class views, wrote plays and realistic novels, also historical fiction. Date: 1816 - 1895

Background imageWrote Collection: Edmond Fremy - 2

Edmond Fremy - 2
EDMOND FREMY French chemist who made several valuable discoveries such as hydrogen fluoride gas, and wrote extensively on chemistry subjects. Date: 1814 - 1894

Background imageWrote Collection: Girolamo Fracastoro - 3

Girolamo Fracastoro - 3
GIROLAMO FRACASTORO Italian physician, astronomer and poet, who wrote a poem about syphilis. (His birthdate may be 1483) Date: CIRCA 1478 - 1553

Background imageWrote Collection: Girolamo Fracastoro - 4

Girolamo Fracastoro - 4
GIROLAMO FRACASTORO Italian physician, astronomer and poet, who wrote a poem about syphilis. (His birthdate may be 1483) Date: CIRCA 1478 - 1553

Background imageWrote Collection: Mrs Fletcher

Mrs Fletcher
Mrs FLETCHER was Miss Jewsbury before she met Mr Fletcher, and perhaps wrote under that name ? with her autograph Date: CIRCA 1840

Background imageWrote Collection: William Thos. Fitzgerald

William Thos. Fitzgerald
WILLIAM THOMAS FITZGERALD Civil servant who wrote verses during the moments of leisure his duties as a clerk in the Navy Office allowed him. Date: 1759 - 1829

Background imageWrote Collection: Charles Este, Bishop

Charles Este, Bishop
CHARLES ESTE English churchman who held several ecclesiastical posts in Ireland, culminating in the bishopric of Waterford. He wrote Latin verses at college. Date: 1696 - 1745

Background imageWrote Collection: First Duke Devonshire

First Duke Devonshire
WILLIAM CAVENDISH, first Duke of DEVONSHIRE influential statesman, serving Charles II and the protestant cause, supporting William III. He also wrote good verses. Date: 1640 - 1707

Background imageWrote Collection: Jacques Delille - 4

Jacques Delille - 4
Abbe JACQUES DELILLE French writer, One of the Forty of the Academie Francaise - judging by the ornaments in this engraving, he wrote of rustic matters. Date: 1738 - 1813

Background imageWrote Collection: John Dennis, Caricature

John Dennis, Caricature
JOHN DENNIS playwright and critic - more successful at the latter than the former; made enemies of Swift and Pope, but wrote well on Shakespeare. Date: 1657 - 1734

Background imageWrote Collection: Robert Charles Dallas

Robert Charles Dallas
ROBERT CHARLES DALLAS Jamaica-born writer, best known for his association with Byron, about whom he wrote a volume of reminiscences. He lived mostly abroad. Date: 1754 - 1824

Background imageWrote Collection: Samuel Dale, Medical

Samuel Dale, Medical
SAMUEL DALE Medical practitioner at Braintree, Essex where he wrote his Pharmacologia. Date: 1659 - 1739

Background imageWrote Collection: Louis De Crillon

Louis De Crillon
LOUIS BALBIS de BERTON de CRILLON, French soldier to whom Henri IV wrote Pends- toi, brave Crillon, nous avons combattu a Arques et tu n y etais pas ! Date: 1541 - 1615

Background imageWrote Collection: Don Trueba Y Cozio

Don Trueba Y Cozio
Don TELESFORO de TRUEBA Y COZIO Spanish writer, author of The Exquisites, which he very thoughtfully wrote in English. with his autograph Date: 1805 - 1835

Background imageWrote Collection: James Cobb, Playwright

James Cobb, Playwright
JAMES COBB - Secretary in the East India Co. who wrote many mediocre stage pieces, mostly musical comedies but including an operatic version of Paul et Virginie, best forgotten. Date: 1756 - 1818

Background imageWrote Collection: CLEOBULUS

CLEOBULUS One of the Seven Sages of Greece, famous for the beautiful shape of his body. He wrote some verses, and was presumably pretty bright. Date: 694 - 564 BCE

Background imageWrote Collection: Casimir Bonjour, Writer

Casimir Bonjour, Writer
CASIMIR BONJOUR Popular French playwright, who wrote in verse. Date: 1795 - 1856

Background imageWrote Collection: Nicholas Biddle

Nicholas Biddle
NICHOLAS BIDDLE American financier, president of Bank of the United States, involved in political controversy, resigned & wrote a history of Lewis & Clark. Date: 1786 - 1844

Background imageWrote Collection: MARY BERRY

MARY BERRY - Writer, devoted friend (with her sister Agnes) of Horace Walpole, whose works she edited; she also wrote plays, one of which was with- drawn for its lax morality. Date: 1763 - 1852

Background imageWrote Collection: Henry Belfrage

Henry Belfrage
HENRY BELFRAGE Prominent Scottish churchman, precocious child who began preaching at age 10 : he wrote many books on religion in family life and the like. Date: 1774 - 1835

Background imageWrote Collection: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH American author and editor, wrote The story of a bad boy some novels and books of poems. Who now reads him ? Date: 1836 - 1907

Background imageWrote Collection: WILLIAM HAYLEY 1745-1820

WILLIAM HAYLEY 1745-1820
WILLIAM HAYLEY English Poet. Wrote Triumph of Music (1804) and Ballads founded on anecdotes of animals (1805). Date: 1745 - 1820

Background imageWrote Collection: Mark Ridley

Mark Ridley
MARK RIDLEY medical, found favour at the Russian court as doctor to Tsar Boris Godunov, returned to England, wrote scholarly books on magnetism and such Date: 1560 - 1624

Background imageWrote Collection: John Hawkesworth - 1

John Hawkesworth - 1
JOHN HAWKESWORTH English writer. Wrote the play Edgar and Emmeline in 1761. Date: 1715 - 1773

Background imageWrote Collection: Frances Sheridan

Frances Sheridan (1724 - 1766) - author, wrote first novel at age 15, subsequent writings praised by Johnson, staged by Garrick : also produced Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Background imageWrote Collection: William E Channing

William E Channing
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Influential American clergyman, known as the Apostle of Unitarianism, wrote about social and philanthropic issues Date: 1780 - 1842

Background imageWrote Collection: Samuel R Crockett / V Fair

Samuel R Crockett / V Fair
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT Scottish novelist who wrote in dialect Date: 1860 - 1914

Background imageWrote Collection: th Huxley / St Johns Wood

th Huxley / St Johns Wood
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY English scientists home at 4 Marlborough Place, St Johns Wood, where he wrote many of his works Date: 1825 - 1895

Background imageWrote Collection: WILLIAM HICKS (D. 1660)

WILLIAM HICKS (D. 1660)
WILLIAM HICKS Puritan, who fought enthusiastically as a captain in the Civil War, wrote one or two things Date: 1621 - 1660

Background imageWrote Collection: Sterne - Cpxwould Yorks

Sterne - Cpxwould Yorks
Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768) Coxwould, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, home of the novelist and clergyman: this is where he wrote Sentimental Journey

Background imageWrote Collection: Sterne Coxwould Yorks

Sterne Coxwould Yorks
Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768) Coxwould, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, home of the novelist and clergyman: this is where he wrote Sentimental Journey

Background imageWrote Collection: George Eliot / Richmond

George Eliot / Richmond
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) Home of the English novelist at 8 Park Shot, Richmond, where she wrote Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede Date: 1819 - 1880

Background imageWrote Collection: Aristomachus

Aristomachus
ARISTOMACHUS Greek writer of Solos, who observed, loved and wrote about bees : no one seems to know exactly when he lived Date: BC

Background imageWrote Collection: John VI Cantacuzenus

John VI Cantacuzenus
JOHN VI CANTACUZENUS Eastern Emperor (1347-54), ruled in Constantinople, but was driven out and retired to a monastery, where he wrote a history Date: 1292 - 1383

Background imageWrote Collection: Henry Liddell

Henry Liddell
HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL English classical scholar ordained in Anglican church. It was for his daughter Alice that Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. Date: 1811 - 1898

Background imageWrote Collection: Therese V Braunschweig

Therese V Braunschweig
THERESE VON BRAUNSCHWEIG Cousin of Guiccardi and also a great love of Beethoven. It is accepted that she was the Immortal Beloved to whom he wrote his famous letter

Background imageWrote Collection: Francis Beaumont / Evans

Francis Beaumont / Evans
FRANCIS BEAUMONT English dramatist Wrote commendatory verses for the plays of Ben Jonson Date: 1584 - 1616

Background imageWrote Collection: Avro 683 Lancaster wrote its name into history with its

Avro 683 Lancaster wrote its name into history with its breaching of the Ruhr dams

Background imageWrote Collection: DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, Bernal (1496-1584). Spanish conquistador

DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, Bernal (1496-1584). Spanish conquistador. He wrote The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. Cover of The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. 1632

Background imageWrote Collection: Suffragette Arson Whitekirk

Suffragette Arson Whitekirk. St. Marys in Whitekirk, East Lothian, after the fire of 26th february 1914. Suffragette militants were suspected, and, as the churchs minister wrote

Background imageWrote Collection: Suffragette Arson Hurst Park

Suffragette Arson Hurst Park. Shows the destroyed Grand Stand at Hurst Park Racecourse, 8th June 1913, caused by an arson attack by militant suffragettes Kitty Marion (1871-1944) and Betty Giveen

Background imageWrote Collection: Sunset somewhere in. WWI drawing

Sunset somewhere in. WWI drawing
Sunset somewhere in. On verso - Dearest Ciss, Just a few lines hoping you are in the best of health. I wrote you a few days ago and expect you will have received some ere this. Love. Yours always. B

Background imageWrote Collection: Waiting to have his shirt examined

Waiting to have his shirt examined. In the hands of the Louse Patrol. Somewhere in France. On verso - Dearest Ciss, Enclosed you will find 14 PCs which I hope you will like also the programme of



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