19th Century American Figures

Engravings of influential 19th-century men. Portraits highlight distinctive clothing styles of the period, focusing on their historical significance.

Giacomo Meyerbeer. German opera composer of Jewish descent. Despised by Richard Wagner. Date: 1791-1864

Johann Wilhelm Klein. Lithograph by J. Kriehuber, 1831.

Alphonse Marie Louis Prat de Lamartine, 21 October 1790, 28 February 1869, a French writer and politician, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Portrait of Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford (1823-1898) a British Liberal politician. Dated 19th century

Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy. French musician of Jewish descent and composer of some forty operas. Date: 1799 - 1862

Henry Clay (1777- 1852) was an American statesman, U.S. congressman, and U.S. senator who was noted for his American System (which integrated a national bank, the tariff, and internal improvements to promote economic stability and prosperity). He was also a promoter of the Missouri Compromise (1820) and the Compromise of 1850, both efforts to shield

Portrait of Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) a British inventor and mining engineer. Dated 19th Century

James Martineau 1805-1900 English philosopher From the book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine May to October 1883

Charles Sumner (1811 -1874) was an American statesman and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in the state and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War.

Lisfranc de Saint-Martin, Jacques.

Victor Cousin (1792-1867). French Philosopher. Founder of Electicism. Engraving, 19th century.

'Spencer Horatio Walpole (1808-1898) English lawyer and Whig and Liberal politician. He served as Home Secretary three times in Lord Derby's administrations, 1822, 1858-1959, and 1866. Engraving.'

Philipp Eduard Devrient, 11 August 1801, 4 conorhynchos conirostris (1877), was a German actor, singer of the vocal register bass-baritone and theatre director, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century original

Sir Dominic John Corrigan. Wood engraving.

THE LATE SIR JAMES EMERSON-TENNENT, BART., K.C.B., 1869

John Lemoinne (1815-1892). French journalist. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1876.

'Chalres Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (1818-1901) c1880, English Conservative politician and nobleman. Tinted lithograph c1880.'

MR. ELLIOTT LEES, M.P. DR. RICHARD DOUGLAS POI/YELL MR. JAMES MUSGRAVE MR. ALEXANDER BAIRD

Johann Eduard Erdmann, 1805, 1892, a German professor of philosophy and writer, ca. 1889, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, a German professor of philosophy and writer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

MICHAEL FARADAY

John Tyler, President of the United States, 1841. Born 29th day of March 1790 / from life on stone by Chs. Fenderich 1841. | Library of Congress

Jan Tomasz Seweryn Jasiński (1806 Warsaw 1879 Warsaw) actor of the French school and director Styfi, Jan (1841 1921), Pillati, Ksawery (1843 1902)

Sir Anthony Cleasby, judge of the High Court of Justice, 1880.Artist: Lock & Whitfield

CHARLES DICKENS Dickens in 1858. Date: 1812 - 1870

Portrait of Anton von Schmerling (1805-1893) Austrian statesman. Dated 19th Century

Johann Eduard Erdmann, 1805 - 1892, a German professor of philosophy and writer, ca. 1889, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Vicente Vazquez Queipo (1804-1893). Spanish economist, mathematician and politician. Engraving by Arturo Carretero (1852-1903). The Spanish and American Illustration, 1893.

George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) English astronomer and geophysicist born at Alnwick, Northumberland. Astronomer Royal and Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (1835-1881). Engraving.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865). British statesman and Prime Minister. Engraving, Our Century, 1883.

Portrait of Hidde Justusz. Halbertsma. Under the portrait portrait of the portrayed and a caption in Latin.

Portrait of Henry Halleck, American military

George Peabody, 1795 - 1869. American financier and philanthropist. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c. 1880.

Manuel de Medina Verdes y Cabañas (1773-1856). General and Minister of the Carlist War. Portrait. Engraving by José Gómez. Panorama Español, Crónica Contemporánea. Madrid, 1842. Author: José Gómez. Spanish engraver.

Max Müller (1823-1900). German-born philologist and Orientalist. Engraving. Nuestro Siglo, 1883, Barcelona, Spain.

JOSEPH PEASE railway promoter of Darlington, associated with George Stephenson Date: 1799 - 1872

Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808-1879). British banker, politician and philanthropist. Portrait. Engraving.

THOMAS HENRY BURKE Under-Secretary for Ireland, assassinated with Frederick Cavendish by Irish nationalists in Phoenix Park, Dublin, 6 May 1882. Date: 1829 - 1882

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE - British historian and writer. Date: 1818 - 1894

David Livingstone (1813-1873). Scottish explorer. In 1852 he discovered the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, and reached the Indian shores in 1856. Colored engraving.

George William Curtis,1824-92. American author,editor and reformer. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, American, Volume 15'

Martin Eduard Simson, from 1888 von Simson, 10 November 1810- 2 May 1899, was a German judge, university lecturer and parliamentarian in the Kingdom o...

Mr John Laird, of Birkenhead, circa 1860

Jules Ferry (Jules Francois Camille Ferry) (1832-1893). French statesman. Portrait. Engraving. ""Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia"" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume I. Published in Barcelona, 1870.

MR. W.H. STONE, M.P., 1873

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. British politician and writer. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice. Portrait. Engraving by Klose.

EDGAR QUINET French historian Date: 1803 - 1875

THE HON. H.J. ROUS, ADMIRAL R.N., Died June 19, 1877, Aged 82, 1877 engraving

Portrait of James Anthony Froude

Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky ca. 1822.

Henry Clutterbuck. Lithograph by T. Fairland after A. Jérôme, 1850.

LIVINGSTONE, David (1813-1873). Scottish explorer. In 1852 he discovered the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, and reached the Indian shores in 1856. Colored engraving.

William Chambers (1800-1883), Scottish publisher and author. In the 1820s, with a small second-hand hand press, William and his older brother Robert laid the foundations of what, by the end of the 19th century, became one of the largest English language publishers in the world, W & R Chambers, Edinburgh. From 'The Modern Portrait Gallery' (London, c1880). Tinted lithograph.

Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada (1823-1889). Jurist and Liberal president of Mexico. Engraving by Paris. La Ilustracion Espanola y Artistica, 1872.

David Livingstone (1813-1873). Scottish explorer. Engraving.

John Tyler, President of the United States, 1841, Born 29th day of March 1790, from Life on Stone by Chs. Fenderich, 1841

Illustration of Jørgen Moe, a Norwegian folklorist, bishop and author. Dated 1875

Portrait of Melchor Sánchez de Toca (Vergara 1806 - Madrid 1880). Surgeon and Spanish writer, first Marquis de Toca. Royal National Academy of Medicin

Richard Cobden, England., 1800 - 1899. Single tax, George Henry, 1839-1897., 1 photographic print; 12.6 x 8.5 cm

Eugene Sue (Paris, 1804-Annecy, Savoy, 1857). Pseudonym of Marie-Joseph Sue. French novelist. Drawing by Llanta. Engraving from Galeria Universal, 1868. Later colouration.

Engraved portrait of Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) an English poet and critic. Dated 19th century

Robert Jameson. Lithograph by F. Schenck after W. Stewart.

Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's war governor ca. 1895.

James Buchanan (1791-1868) - 15th President of the United States (18571861). Date: circa 1860

Alessandro Manzoni (1785 Ð 1873). Italian poet and novelist. Engraving by Maynhofer. Nuestro Siglo, 1883.

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George I, 1845 - 1913. King of Greece, 1863 - 1913. From Russes et Turcs: La Guerre D'Orient, published 1878.

Alessandro Manzoni ( 1785- 1873) 18th-19th Century. Italian poet and novelist. The Bretothed, famous book. Engraving.

JUAN BRAVO MURILLO (1803-1873).

Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo (1807-1878). Spanish musician, composer and priest. Portrait. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1878.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Colour lithograph by Maclure & Macdonald, 1885.

James K. Polk, President of the United States, from life on stone by Chas. Fenderich, Lithograph, N. Nagel's Lith. Print, N.Y. 1845

Ignaz von Doellinger (1799-1890). German theologian and Catholic priest. Engraving, 1883.

'Aberdare', c1877. Portrait of British lawyer and politician Henry Austin Bruce (1815-1895), who was elected Liberal MP for Merthyr Tydfil in 1854. He held various ministerial posts, notably Home Secretary under Gladstone in 1869-1873. In 1873 at Gladstone's request he became Lord President of the Council and was subsequently raised to the peerage. The defeat of the Liberals in the General Election of 1874 brought an end to Baron Aberdare's political life, but he went on to pursue a range of social, business and educational interests. He was Chairman of the National African Company from 1882,

SIR GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY English astronomer, and Astronomer Royal from 1835 until 1881 Date: 1801 - 1892

Justus Freiherr von Liebig, 1803 - 1873, German chemist and scientist, father of the fertilizer industry, digitally edited

Portrait of the Fenimore Cooper

James K Polk, 11th President of the USA, 1845 - 1849

Francisco Martínez de la Rosa (1787-1862). Spanish statesman and dramatist. He was the first President of the Spanish Council of Ministers. Portrait. Drawing by Llanta. Lithography. Later colouration. "Cronica General de España, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Andalucia", 1869. Author: Santiago Llanta (fl. 1866-1872). French lithographer who worked in Spain.

Prince Franz Joseph von Dietrichstein Actually Franz Joseph Carl Johann Nepomuk Quirin von Dietrichstein-Proskau-Leslie, 8th Reichsfürst of Dietrichstein born April 28 or April 29, 1767 in Vienna, July 8th or July 10, 1854. the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Portrait of Sir John Richardson (1787-1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer. Dated 19th century

Martin Eduard Sigismund Simson, from 1888 Eduard von Simson, 10 November 1810, 2 May 1899, was a German judge, university lecturer and parliamentarian in the Kingdom of Prussia, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Ferdinand Lukas Schubert (born 18 October 1794 at Himmelpfortgrund in Vienna, died 26 February 1859 in Vienna) (note 1) was an Austrian composer and brother of Franz Schubert, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Side portrait of Zachary Taylor, Major General. of the U.S. Army and 12th President of USA C1847.

Emile Ollivier, French minister of justice and keeper of the seal of the French Republic, 1870, historic illustration, illustrated war chronicle 1870 to 1871, German campaign against France

Thomas Bazeley (1797-1885) English cotton manufacturer, merchant and politician, member of the Anti-Cornlaw League, Member of Parliament for Manchester 1858-1880, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

William Lloyd Garrison (died 1879) was a prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.

AGUSTIN DURAN (1789-1862) ESCRITOR Y ERUDITO ESPAÑOL DEL ROMANTICISMO. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Dollinger, Johann Ignaz von (Bamberg ,1799-Munich, 1890). German theologian and historian.

Portrait of Sir Jacob Wilson (1836-1905) an English land agent, cattle breeder, and prominent agriculturist. Dated 19th Century

Robert Jameson (1774-1854) Scottish mineralogist, Regis professor of natural history at Edinburgh 1804-1854. With David Brewster he founded the 'Edinburgh Philosophical Journal'. From 'Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison' by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875).

LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE. ESCRITOR Y POETA ROMANTICO FRANCES. 1790-1869. GRABADO REALIZADO A PARTIR DE UN RETRATO DE DUPONT, AÑO 1837.

Prot Lelewel from: Tygodnik Ilustrowany, 1884, No. 67 Regulski, Aleksander Tadeusz (1839 1884), Buchbinder, Józef (1839 1909)

Reverend Charles John Vaughan, Harrow Headmaster and Dean of Llandaff, 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Hieber, Johann Franz von.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931). American inventor. Portrait. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1878.

Karl Ferdinand Graf von Buol-Schauenstein, 17. Mai 1797, 28. Oktober 1865, war ein österreichischer Staatsmann, digitale verbesserte Reproduktion eine...

The Honourable William Paulding. Asher Brown Durand; American, 1796-1886. Date: 1826. Dimensions: 120 x 124 mm (plate); 238 x 185 mm (sheet). Engraving on ivory wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, 1872 engraving

WILHELM CARL GRIMM German philologist and folklorist Date: 1786 - 1859

Mr. Emile Pereire, according to a photograph.

Benjamin Tulloch. Coloured lithograph by J. Storey after T. H. Carrick.

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