Intellectual Collection

W.H. Hutton, 1927, England, Joseph Simpson. Gift of Sir John Ilott, 1927. The churchman (Dean of Winchester) and historian of the church and India, William Holden Hutton (1860-1930)

Philip Melanchthon, 1540. Creator: Heinrich Aldegrever
Philip Melanchthon, 1540. Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) was a leading figure of the Protestant Reformation in Germany

A.L. Smith, Master of Balliol, 1915. Creator: Francis Dodd
A.L. Smith, Master of Balliol, 1915. Arthur Lionel Smith was Master of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1916-24. He had a lifelong association with Balliol, coming up as an undergraduate in 1869

The Social Science Congress at New York: conversazione in the Assembly Rooms, Blake-street, 1864. From "Illustrated London News", 1864

Portuguese Peace Com'n, 11 Jan 1919. Creator: Bain News Service
Portuguese Peace Com'n, 11 Jan 1919. Portuguese representatives at the 1919 Peace Conference in Paris, France after World War I

Portrait of Philip Melancthon, 1540. Creator: Heinrich Aldegrever
Portrait of Philip Melancthon, 1540

Suivez bien mon raisonnement, Eudoxie... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Suivez bien mon raisonnement, Eudoxie... 1844

Philip Melanchthon, 1497-1560. Creators: Anon, Unknown
Philip Melanchthon, 1497-1560, unknown date

The Drawing Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society, 1801. Creator: Adriaan De Lelie
The Drawing Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society, 1801

The Sculpture Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society, 1806-1809. Creator: Adriaan De Lelie
The Sculpture Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society, 1806-1809

Full-blood types: a winner of intellectual prizes, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Full-blood types: a winner of intellectual prizes, 1916

Portrait of Edgar Quinet (1803-1875), writer and politician, c1835

Portrait of René Descartes (1596-1650), philosopher and scholar. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Rene Descartes (1596-1650), philosopher and scholar

Caffe Greco - Rome, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Caffe Greco - Rome, 1850. View of... the interior of the Caffe Greco in the Via Condotti, which leads from the Corso to the Piazza di Spagna

1c Franklin single, 1887. Creator: American Bank Note Company
1c Franklin single, 1887. Unused; perf 12

1c Franklin single, 1881. Creator: American Bank Note Company
1c Franklin single, 1881. Mint; perf 12

Helvetius. Creator: Pierre Michel Alix
Helvetius

Plate 43 from Los Caprichos : The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueno de la razon produce monstruos), 1799, published 1908-12

Philip Melanchthon, 1526. Creator: Albrecht Durer
Philip Melanchthon, 1526

The historian John Besly, after Jaspar Isaac, 1861. Creator: Charles Meryon
The historian John Besly, after Jaspar Isaac, 1861

A Nighttime Gathering, Folio from the Davis Album, dated 1664-65. Creator: Muhammad Zaman
A Nighttime Gathering, Folio from the Davis Album, dated 1664-65

The Contest at Auckinleck (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second), June 10, 1786

Montesquieu, (1689-1755), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Montesquieu, (1689-1755), 1830. Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689-1755) French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher. From " Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard

Milton, (1608-1674), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Milton, (1608-1674), 1830

They found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, c1840. Creator
They found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, c1840

Sr. K. Digby, (1603-1665), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Sr. K. Digby, (1603-1665), 1830. Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) English courtier and diplomat, natural philosopher, astrologer and leading Roman Catholic intellectual

George Buchanan, (1506-1582), 1830. Creator: Unknown
George Buchanan, (1506-1582), 1830. George Buchanan (1506-1582) Scottish historian and humanist scholar. His ideology of resistance to royal usurpation was popular during the Scottish Reformation

Christina, (1626-1689), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Christina, (1626-1689), 1830

The Voltaire Incident, 1883-1907, (c1930). Creator: William Quiller Orchardson
The Voltaire Incident, 1883-1907, (c1930)

The Sophists Expelled from Rome, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Sophists Expelled from Rome, 1890. From " Cassells Illustrated Universal History Vol. II - Rome", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

An Oration of Demosthenes, 1890. Creator: Unknown
An Oration of Demosthenes, 1890. Demosthenes (384-322 BC), Greek statesman and orator, worked as a professional speech-writer and lawyer

Demosthenes, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Demosthenes, 1890. Demosthenes (384-322 BC), Greek statesman and orator, worked as a professional speech-writer and lawyer

John Milton, 1785. Creator: Unknown
John Milton, 1785. John Milton (1608-1674), English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England and is best known for his poem Paradise Lost (1667)

John Locke. Esq, 1786. Creator: Unknown
John Locke. Esq, 1786.John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher, physician and Enlightenment thinker important to social contract theory and considered to be as the " Father of Liberalism

M. Gonzales Bravo, 1854. Creator: Unknown
M. Gonzales Bravo, 1854

Marcel Proust, French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, late 19th-early 20th century. Portrait of Proust, (1871-1922), author of A la recherche du temps perdu

Marcel Proust, French author, 1922. Proust (1871-1922) is best remembered for his A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) a seven volume work spanning some 3200 pages

A German man of letters, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost Amman
A German man of letters, 16th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original 16th century wood engraving

Thomas de Quincey, English author and intellectual, (1912)

Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 19th century. Stanhope was a British statesman and intellectual. From Sentimental Magazine

Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1868), French physicist, 19th century. Known especially for his research on the speed of light, he also improved astronomical instruments, especially the telescope

Vision of an intellectual family in the 1950s, 1883
Vision of an intellectual family in the 1950s. Anticipated result of selective breeding in Man. From A. Robida Le Vingtieme Siecle, Paris, 1883

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher and mathematician. Nobel prize for literature 1950

Hannah More being introduced to society, English religious writer
Hannah More (1745-1833) English religious writer and playwright, and member of the Blue Stocking circle of intelligent educated women, being introduced to Society by the Duchess of Gloucester

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