Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch author, scholar and humanist mb-artistname Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton 21 February 1876 (1901)

21 February 1876 (1901)

resting upon his lap

'Conscription'

John Lennon

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 21 February 1876 (1901)Desiderius 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.