Giuseppe Balsamo, known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, was an Italian occultist.
Bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon, c. 1786
Lorenza Seraphina Feliciani, his wife
19th-century illustration of a Cagliostro performance in Dresden
Satire on Cagliostro at a Masonic meeting in London in 1786, by James Gillray
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy.
Portrait c. 1865
Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace
Silhouettes of Carlyle's father and mother with captions in Carlyle's hand
Plaque at 22A Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh