FLO4638568: Joan Ashley, Lady Meutas, wife of the broker Sir Peter Meutas (1517-1551). Lady of the privy chamber to Queen Jane Seymour. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Francis Bartolozzi after Hans Holbein from Facsimiles of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, Hamilton, Adams, London, 1884. / Bridgeman Images
TAD1745928: Jeanne de Saint Remi de Vallois (top) countess of La Motte Valois, daughter of an illegitime son of King HenriII, here in 1785 meeting for the first time Nicole Legay who will take the title of baroness of Oliva to gain admittance to parisian salons. her mission consisted in being taken for queen MarieAntoinette by cardinal prince deRohan and convince him to buy the necklace diamond of the Parisian jewellers Bohmer and Bassenge, engraving / Bridgeman Images
XEE4169930: Portrait of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise of Pompadour (known as Madame de Pompadour, 1722-1764) mistress of King Louis XV. Engraving in “Histoire des Papes-Rois-Queen and Empereurs a travers les centuries”” by Maurice Lachatre, 1863., French School, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images
ELD4853032: Egyptian Antiquite: “” The Death of Cleopatra”” The Queen of Egypt Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (69-30 BC) suicide by being bitten by two aspics snakes (Suicide of Egypt Cleopatra) Illustration by Tancredi Scarpelli (1866-1937) from “” Storia d'Italia”” (History of Italy) by Paolo Giant Udici, 1930 Private Collection, Scarpelli, Tancredi (1866-1937) / Bridgeman Images