Intellectual Collection

The Social Science Congress at New York: conversazione in the Assembly Rooms, Blake-street, 1864. Creator: Unknown
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. Suivez bien mon raisonnement, Eudoxie...tout doit tendre a un but humanitaire

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. Other Title(s): The Drawing Room of the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam with Portraits of Artists, Collectors of Paintings and Drawings

The Sculpture Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society, 1806-1809. Creator: Adriaan De Lelie
The Sculpture Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society, 1806-1809. Other Title(s): The Sculpture Gallery of the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam

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. Creator: Sebastien-Melchior Cornu
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

M. Gonzales Bravo, 1854. Creator: Unknown
M. Gonzales Bravo, 1854. Portrait of Spanish politician Luis Gonzalez Bravo, who served twice as prime minister of Spain:..member of the new Spanish corps diplomatique...He was long the editor of a

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. John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell

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. Biblical scene, from Luke 2: 46: And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple

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. Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689) the only surviving legitimate child of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, had interest in religion, philosophy

The Voltaire Incident, 1883-1907, (c1930). Creator: William Quiller Orchardson
The Voltaire Incident, 1883-1907, (c1930). Scene based on a real incident: the French satirist Voltaire (1694-1778) has been beaten by the servants of the Duc de Rohan after Voltaire outsmarted him

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

Marcel Proust, French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, late 19th-early 20th century. Artist: Otto
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. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix

Thomas de Quincey, English author and intellectual, (1912). Portrait of de Quincey (1785-1859) from Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London, by John Adcock, (J M Dent and Sons, London, New York)

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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