It comes from a collection of Poland's 18th century aristocrat Stanislaw Kostka-Potocki. In 1823, the painting was listed among art works belonging to another Polish aristocrat, Henryk Lubomirski ...
More and more crimes were made capital offences as new crimes developed in the 18th century, due to social and economic changes. Members of Parliament (the law makers) were all landed aristocracy ...
The Georgian-era instalment of the comedy television programme Blackadder sees the eponymous Edmund Blackadder serving as ...