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[Christian V and Charlotte Amelia of Denmark] Le Roy et la Reyne de Danemarck.
S. Thomassin Sculptor Regius 1697.
Se vend a Paris chez Thomassin rue St Jacques vis a vis la rue de Plastre a l'Annonciation Avec Privil du Roy
Engraving sheet 230 x 170mm (9 x 6¾"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
Christian V (1646-99), king of Denmark and Norway, and his queen-consort Charlotte Amelie of Hesse-Kassel (1650-1714). Christian's general popularity was marred by his failure, in the Scanian War, to regain the Scanian lands ceded to the Sweden in the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde.
[Ref: 42986] £190.00
(£228.00 incl.VAT)
Castor et Pollux. Ces deux statues de marbre representent deux enfans Jumeaux, dont la Déesse Latonne, qui avoiteu commerce avec Jupiter, accoucha dans l'Isle de Delos, où elle ses toit refugiée pour eviter la colere de Junon, qui pour se vanger l'avoit banni de dessus la terre. Ces deux statues antiques de marbre sont placées dans la Vigne Ludovise à Rome, elles ont été copiées par un sculpteur francois, pour estre placées à Versailles. 65.
Elles sont designées et gravées par S. Thomassin graveur du Roy 1724.
Engraving, 375 x 240mm (14½ x 9½"), with small margins. Scuffed, stains and creases going into the image and inscription area.
A statue of Caster and Pollux, by Antoine Coysevox (1640-1720), offering a sacrifice to Persephone. The statue, based on the 1st century AD original located in the Villa Ludovisi in Rome, was commissioned for the Parterre de Latone of Versailles in 1685.
[Ref: 58977] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
Emeric Comte de Teckely Chef des Mécontents en Hongrie.
S. Thomassin Sculptor Regius
Se Vend a Paris chez Thomassin rue St. Jacques vis a vis la rue du Platre a l'Image St. Jean avec Privil du Roy [c.1700]
Engraving, sheet 225 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾"). Trimmed; tipped into album sheet.
Count Imre Thököly de Késmárk (1658-1705), Hungarian nobleman who led an anti-Habsburg uprising, following his father Istvan (who died when he was a child) in doing so. He led an army of rebels, reinforced by Turkish and Transylvanian forces, and established himself as Prince of Upper Hungary (1682-5). Having formed an alliance with the Ottoman Empire, Thököly assisted the Turks in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, in which intervention from the Polish army of Sobieski led to a decisive defeat for the Ottoman army. Thököly then tried to reconcile himself with Habsburg Emperor Leopold I, offering to lay down his arms in exchange for recognition of Thököly as Prince of Upper Hungary and confirmation of Protestant religious rights in Hungary. Leopold, however, demanded complete surrender, and Thököly renewed hostilities. This 1685 campaign was also a failure and ended in imprisonment. Although Thököly achieved subsequent victories with diminished forces, he lost his principality of Upper Hungary and finally retired to Galata, near Istanbul, with large estates granted him by Sultan Mustafa II.
[Ref: 43001] £140.00
(£168.00 incl.VAT)
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