Quill Pen Collection (page 6)

A Scholar Seated at a Desk (Scholar at his Study). Artist: Rembrandt van Rhijn (1606-1669)
A Scholar Seated at a Desk (Scholar at his Study). Found in the collection of National Gallery, Prague

Portrait of Madame Roland. Artist: Labille-Guiard, Adelaide (1749-1803)
Portrait of Madame Roland. Found in the collection of Musee des beaux-arts de Quimper

Scholar sharpening a quill pen. Artist: Dou, Gerard (Gerrit) (1613-1675)
Scholar sharpening a quill pen. Found in the collection of The Leiden Collection NY

The Quill-cutter, 1627. Artist: Lievens, Jan (1607-1674)
The Quill-cutter, 1627. Found in the collection of Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque composer, Catholic priest, and virtuoso violinist, 1725. Artist: Peter La Cave
Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque composer, Catholic priest, and virtuoso violinist, 1725. A print from Les Musiciens Celebres, Lucien Mazenod, Paris, 1948. (Colorised black and white print)

Calvin 1509-1564. - Gemalde von Scheffer, 1934
Calvin 1509-1564. 1934. Jean Calvin (1509-1564), 16th century French theologian who settled in Geneva and became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation

W. Forsyth, Esq. M. P. c1870. Artist: Faustin
W. Forsyth, Esq. M.P. c1870. William Forsyth QC (1812-1899), Scottish lawyer and Conservative Member of Parliament. From The London Figaro, by Faustin Betbeder. [James Mortimer, London, c1870]

Richard Pigott, 1889. Artist: Sir Leslie Matthew Ward
Richard Pigott, 1889. A caricature of Richard Pigott (1835-1889), Irish Nationalist and Journalist. [Vanity Fair, 1889]

The Album, 1836, (1924). Artist: Alfred Chalon
The Album, 1836. From The Connoisseur Vol LXVIII [Otto Limited, London, 1924.]

Hans Sachs, German meistersinger (mastersinger), poet, playwright and shoemaker, 1623. Artist: L Kilina
Hans Sachs, German meistersinger (mastersinger), poet, playwright and shoemaker, 1623. A print from Les Musiciens Celebres, Lucien Mazenod, Paris, 1948

Charles Dickens, British novelist, 19th century (1956). Considered one of the English languages greatest writers, Dickens (1812-1870) was the foremost novelist of the Victorian era

Artificial limbs, 1510-1590 (1956). A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union

Victor Hugo, French author, 1872. Born in Besancon, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a central figure in the French Romantic movement

Dr Charles Burneys Family, (1912). Cut with scissors mounted on silk. Charles Burney (1726-1814) was a music historian and was the father of the author Frances Burney

The Boer Farmers Wife, 1931. Plate taken from Historic Farms of South Africa, by Dorothea Fairbridge, published by Oxford University Press (London, 1931)

Victor Hugo, 1923. Artist: Benjamin
Victor Hugo, 1923. Published in The Outline of Literature, by John Drinkwater, London, 1923

The first reading of the proclamation of emancipation, 1863, (c1920). American president Abraham Lincoln issued the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863

Holy Dominikus, 1506, (1936). Artist: Albrecht Durer
Holy Dominikus, 1506, (1936). Found in the collection of the Graphische Sammlung Albertin, Vienna, Austria. A print from Durer, Und Seine Zeit, by Wilhelm Waetzoldt, Grosse Phaidon Ausgabe, 1936

St Catherine, 19th century. Artist: F Knolle
St Catherine, 19th century

The Astronomer, 19th century. Artist: R Bell
The Astronomer, 19th century

The late Hans Christian Andersen in his study, c1850-1875. Artist: Hans Christian Andersen
The late Hans Christian Andersen in his study, c1850-1875

A Pleasing Method of Rouzing the Doctor or a Thythe Pig No Bad Sight. 1770. Satire on the clergy - a woman is tickling the doctors nose with the tail of a piglet that she is obliged to give him as a

The Astrologer, c19th century. Artist: J Demannez
The Astrologer, c19th century. A Victorian view of a 16th-century practitioner of astrology

William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, British Whig statesman, (1832). Artist: H Robinson
William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, British Whig statesman, (1832). Portrait of Petty (1737-1805) in ermine robes

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat and politician, (1831). Artist: W Holl
Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat and politician, (1831). Horatio Walpole (1678-1757) was the younger brother of Robert Walpole

Charles James Fox, British politician, (1833). Artist: H Robinson
Charles James Fox, British politician, (1833). Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent Whig

Surrender of General Johnston to General Sherman, 26 April 1865, (1872). Confederate general Joseph Eggleston Johnston surrenders to William Tecumseh Sherman at the end of the American Civil War

General Tom Thumb, c1840s. General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), an American celebrity who stopped growing normally when a child

William Wilberforce, English parliamentarian and abolitionist, 19th century. Artist: J Jenkins
William Wilberforce, English parliamentarian and abolitionist, 19th century. Wilberforce (1759-1833) was the leader of the campaign against the slave trade

F Delamothe, 1776. Artist: T Cook
F Delamothe, 1776. Francois de la Mothe Le Vayer (1588-1672) was a French writer. A plate from The Copper-Plate Magazine or A Monthly Treasure, London, 1776

A Letter, 1893. Artist: Klavdi Stepanov
A Letter, 1893. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Still Life with Writing Implements, late 17th or early 18th century. Artist: Cristoforo Monari
Still Life with Writing Implements, late 17th or early 18th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Poet and his Muse. Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin, 1909. Artist: Henri Rousseau
The Poet and his Muse. Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin, 1909. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), 19th Century. Artist: J Jenkins
William Wilberforce, (1759-1833), 19th Century. English parliamentarian and leader of the campaign against the slave trade

The Modern Woman, 1901. Illustration from The Process Year Book, A Review of the Illustrated Arts. published by AW Penrose & Co, (London, 1901)

The Duke of Wellington writing the despatches after the Battle of Waterloo, 1815, 1852. A print from the Illustrated London News, (20 November 1852)

George Buchanan, 1776. Artist: T Cook
George Buchanan, 1776. Buchanan (1506-1582) was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. A plate from The Copper-Plate Magazine or A Monthly Treasure, London, 1776

Hughes Felicite Robert de Lamennais, (1782- 1854), 1827. Artist: Paulin Jean Baptiste Guerin
Hughes Felicite Robert de Lamennais, (1782- 1854), 1827. French priest, and philosophical and political writer, Musee de Beaux Arts

The Blessed Humility and Eleven Stories from Her Life, c1306-1348. Artist: Pietro Lorenzetti
The Blessed Humility and Eleven Stories from Her Life, c1306-1348. Found in the collection of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Portrait of Bernard Wolf, c1823. Artist: Sophie Rude
Portrait of Bernard Wolf, c1823. Bernard Wolf (1778-1850) actor, author and director of the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France

The Counsel of War, 1818, 19th century

Still Life with Skull, detail, 19th century. Artist: Antoine Vollon
Still Life with Skull, detail, 19th century

Adolphus Metkerke (1521-1591), Flemish philologist and statesman

Doctor Syntax making his will, c1816. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Doctor Syntax making his will, c1816. Servants leave the room so that he can speak with his lawyer in privacy. Illustration for Tours of Dr Syntax by William Combe. (London, c1816)

Desiderus Erasmus, 15th-16th century Dutch humanist and scholar, 19th century. Erasmus (1465-1536) writing with a quill pen

The Senator, 19th century

The Venerable Bede (c673-735), Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian, c1584
The Venerable Bede (c673-735), Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar and historian, 1493. Seen here using a quill pen and a writing slope, Bede was a monk at Jarrow, Northumberland

The Four Evangelists, 1620-1625. Artist: Jacob Jordaens
The Four Evangelists, 1620-1625. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

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