1700 Collection (#25)

Racial / Bolivia / Potosi
A Bolivian couple from Potosi

Cameroon / Harbour C1700
Cameroon, West Africa: a port on the sea coast, probably at Douala

Colombia / Cartagena C1700
Cartagena: general view, with ships

New York / General C1700
New York: general view from the sea, when the city was known as New Amsterdam

Jesuits in China
French Jesuit missionaries are received in audience by the Emperor of China

Quaker Tobacco Planters
Quaker tobacco planters in the Bahamas

Stanislas Konarski
STANISLAS KONARSKI Polish writer

Chateau Circa 1700
Birds eye view of a French chateau with its walled foret, formal gardens and lake. A moat surrounds the chateau on two sides, a turreted wall on the others

Versailles Palace C1700
A view of the monumental baroque palace of Louis XIV

Chateau Saint Cloud
CHATEAU DE SAINT CLOUD A view of the monumental Baroque chateau which burnt down in 1870

Russian Czar & Boyars
A Russian Czar on his throne with crown, sceptre & orb and two Boyars in brightly patterned ornate robes, boots & fur hats

John Dryden Basire
JOHN DRYDEN The English poet and Poet Laureate, with an epitaph

INDIA / GOA (1700)
The port of Goa, with European vessels anchored offshore

Gideon Harvey (Elder)
GIDEON HARVEY (the elder) Medical practitioner, physician to Charles II

Carlos VI (Iii)
CARLOS VI (III) son of emperor Leopold I, claimant to Spanish throne, ruled (sort of) 1700 but rejected, leading to Spanish Succession war, with his autograph

Sir Edward Harley
SIR EDWARD HARLEY soldier and statesman with his autograph

William Earl Bedford
WILLIAM RUSSELL, earl of BEDFORD - soldier and statesman, at first sided with Parliament then switched to support Charles. with his autograph

Birds Eye View of Pisa
A bird s-eye view of Pisa showing the river Arno flowing through the middle. Buildings and formal gardens have all been recorded

Battle of Narva
At the battle of NARVA, the Swedish army under Carl XII defeat the Russians under general Dolgorouky : the Russians lose 10, 000, the Swedes only 800

Gdansk in 1700
General view of the port, with a merchant superintending the packing of his merchandise

MALACCA
Malacca (or Melaka) seen from the sea, with a variety of shipping including two Dutch sailing vessels

CARLOS II king of Spain, known as The Bad

Pope Innocens XII
POPE INNOCENS XII (Antonio Pignatelli)

Carlos II (Wreath)
CARLOS II - Spanish monarch whose lack of heir led to the War of the Spanish Succession

Adams, Astrologer
Jack Adams, astrologer of Clerkenwell, London, prepares a horoscope for a woman ( the Queen of Sluts ) whose mother wonders if she is a princess

Versailles Birdseye View
The Palais de Versailles seen from the front, with someone important leaving in a coach with cavalry escort

Daniel Bernouilli
DANIEL BERNOUILLI Swiss Professor of mathematics at St Petersburg and of anatomy, botany and physics and then of philosophy at the University of Basel

London water carrier with two barrels
A London water carrier with two barrels hung on a frame resting across his shoulders -- The New River Water

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