Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist mb-artistname Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton resting upon his lap

resting upon his lap

the first of three victories in his second World Championship-winning season

he was married to Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont at St George's Chapel

looking towards Lambeth

Powis wears a dark red or purple dress with a white lace collared undershirt

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist mb-artistname Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton resting upon his lapDesiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist, (1893). Erasmus (1497 1543) was probably the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. A believer in the superiority of religious practices in earlier times, he was an advocate of reform of the Church. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.