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
Giacomo Meyerbeer. German opera composer of Jewish descent. Despised by Richard Wagner. Date: 1791-1864
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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.
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Henry John Rous (1795-1877), British admiral and sportsman. He served in the Royal Navy from 1808 until 1838. A horse racing enthusiast, he was a steward of the Jockey Club from 1838, and in 1855 he was appointed public handicapper. From 'The Modern Portrait Gallery' (London, c1880).
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Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of William Ewart Gladstone, 1809 - 1898, a former British Prime Minister
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Andrew Jackson. Ink wash on paper. Date: 1829. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.
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Portrait of Sir George Hornridge Porter (1822-1895) best known as the best surgeon in Ireland. Dated 19th century
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, portrait engraving from an original 1854 drawing by Sam W. Rowse, when Emerson was 51 years old (BSLOC_2019_7_176)
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Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, British statesman, c1890.Artist: Cassell, Petter & Galpin
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Edward Forbes (1815-1854) British geologist. Professor of botany, Kings College London. President of the Royal Geological Society 1853. From 'Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison' by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving.
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Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick, 1789 - 1874. Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder. From Great Engineers, published c.1890
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Miguel Dominguez (1756-1830). Mexican lawyer and politician. Portrait in the "Atlas pintoresco e histórico de los Estados Unidos de Mexico" (1885). Engraving.
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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) British Conservative statesman, Tinted lithograph published London c1880
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Athanase Josue Coquerel, 16 June 1820 - 24 July 1875, was a French Protestant theologian, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown
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Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, 14 January 1798, 4 June 1872, was a liberal Dutch statesman, one of the most important Dutch politicians of the 19th century, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown
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Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and explorer, 1872. Artist: Unknown
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Portrait of William Arrol (1839-1913) a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Unionist Party politician. Dated 19th century
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William Henry Smith (1825-1891), son of William Henry Smith (1792-1865), English businessman and politician. He joined his father's newsagent business in 1846 and introduced the selling of books and newspapers at railway stations. Elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Westminster in 1868. In 1877 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and is caricatured as Sir Joseph Porter who, in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta 'HMS Pinafore', sings 'I always voted at my party's call,/And I never thought for myself at all. /I thought so little, they rewarded me/By making me the Ruler of the Queen's Navee. ' During his three years is this position he was known as Pinafore Smith. From 'The Modern Portrait Gallery' (London, c1880). Tinted lithograph.
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Historical print, engraving, 1850, portrait of Gustav Schwab, 1792-1850, German priest, high school teacher and writer of children's and youth literature, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, von Gustav Koennecke, picture atlas, 1887
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BORN JUNE 30, 1800 RICHARD DETHELL, BARON WESTBURY, DIED JULY 20, 1873
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Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) German composer
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Johann Franz Edler von Hieber. Lithograph by L. Fischer, 1839.
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Andrew Ure (1778-1857) on engraving from 1800s. Scottish doctor, scholar and chemist. Engraved by C.Cook after a picture by W.H.Diamond and published by W.Mackenzie.
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Erastus Brooks. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. New York (State) , History
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Illustration of Frederick Stang (1808 - 1884). A Norwegian Jurist and Statesman. Dated 1870
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Robert Lee. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1851, after J. Mayall.
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Adolf süß (1797-1852), industrialist, father of the geologist Eduard süß, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Archibald Campbell Tait, 1811 - 1882, a priest of the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury
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George Stephenson, 1781 - 1848, English civil engineer and mechanical engineer, known as the Father of Railways
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Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Mathy, 1807 to 1868, a Baden journalist and politician, historical wood engraving, ca. 1880, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known, coloured
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Henri Litolff, German Composer and Pianist, circa 1860
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Lewis Smith. An Unknown Man, Sir George Reid (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1841 - 1913) 1878
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Samuel M. Hopkins, M.D., Hyde Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity, Theological Seminary, Auburn, N.Y.. 1880. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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Jules Claude Gabriel Favre, 21 March 1809, 20 January 1880, was a French statesman, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown
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Ambrosio de Morales (1513-1591). Spanish humanist and historian. Drawing by Santiago Llanta, detail. Portrait. Lithography. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Andalucia, 1867.
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James Harper (1795 -1869), was an American publisher and politician in the early-to-mid 19th century.
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Mr. A. G. A. Knight of Rappard / Minister of State
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'William Calder Marshall (1813-1894) c1878, Scottish sculptor: His commissions included public sculptures such as the bronze of Robert Peel in Manchester and of Edward Jenner now in Kensington Gardens.'
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William H. Seward, 24th Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. The 1873 portrait is by an unknown artist after a Mathew Brady photograph (BSLOC_2019_8_106)
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Nazario Eguía (Nazario de Eguía y Sáenz de Buruaga (1777-1865). Count of Casa Eguía. Spanish Carlist military officer. On 17 July 1835 he presented himself in Estella to the pretender Don Carlos, who appointed him viceroy of Navarre. Eguía was subsequently appointed General-in-Chief of the Basque-Navarre Army, replacing General González Moreno. Portrait. Engraving. Panorama Español, Crónica Contemporánea. Madrid, 1842.
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George Crabbe. Stipple engraving, 1823.
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Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia, 21. März 1806, 18. Juli 1872, mexikanischer Anwalt und Präsident von Mexiko, zapotekischer Herkunft aus Oaxaca, Historisch...
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Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, 1808 - 1879, a British banker and politician
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Lord Shaftesbury, English statesman, moral philosopher, philanthropist and factory reformer, c1880. Artist: Anon
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Samuel Cousins, RA, Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope (London, England, 1857 - 1940) 1883
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Portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray, created in 1880 in New York, featuring engravings
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Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Henry Fawcett, 1833 - 1884, a blind British politician and economist
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John Jordan Upchurch ca 1895.
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JOSEPH HENRY SHORTHOUSE writer, best known for 'John Inglesant'. Date: 1834 - 1903
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Jules Michelet, French historian, mid-19th century.Artist: Toullion
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. Wood engraving by W.G. Smith after himself.
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Hebbel, Friedrich.
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1800S 1830S Portrait William H. Harrison 9Th American President
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Simon MAYR, 1763-1845, Italian operatic composer, by Gaetano Birabini