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Vintage portraits of notable historical figures from the 19th century, featuring unique styles and fashion of the era, with a focus on their facial expressions and attire.

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809  1849, American writer, digitally edited according to a photograph Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809  1849, American writer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636418
Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 1849, American writer, digitally edited according to a photograph Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 1849, American writer, digitally edited according to a photograph Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636418
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'Franz Hansfstaengl', c1860, (1939). Artist: Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl.
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GUSTAVE DORE French artist, notably  illustrations to Dante and  Perrault, the Bible, and  Jerrold's London. In 1863.      Date: 1833-1883
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Bliżej Kultury unknown
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Moritz Blagatinschegg Edler von Kaiserfeld (born 24 January 1811 at Mannsberg Castle near Pettau; died 14 February 1885 at Birkenstein Castle near Birkfeld) was an Austrian politician of the Habsburg Monarchy. Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century original. Record date not stated.
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Photograph of Carl Tausig (1841-1871) a Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer. Dated 19th Century
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Photographic portrait of Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Dated 19th century
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August Wilhelm von Hofmann, 1818- 1892, German chemist
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Photographic portrait of Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Dated 19th century
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'Portrait of Prince Konstantin Gorchakov'. France, 1868. Dimensions: 67x56 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: ALEXANDRE CABANEL.
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Johannes Brahms 1833-1897, German composer, as a young man. Halbton of a photography., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date not stated
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August Wilhelm von Hofmann, 1818- 1892, German chemist
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. By 1832, Edgar began to write fiction with the idea of entering story contests. He also discovered opium. A commonly used medicine at the time, it was a stimulant that masked hunger and cold and extended sense of time. In September 1849, Poe left Boston to visit friends and relatives and to look after some business, travelling toward New York City via Baltimore and Philadelphia. He never made it past Baltimore. He arrived there drunk and disappea
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'The Actor Julián Romea', 1845-1850, Oil on canvas, 33,8 x 26,2 cm, CE1577. Author: FEDERICO DE MADRAZO Y KUNTZ (1815-1894). Location: MUSEO DEL ROMANTICISMO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Portrait of the writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. 1877.Vasily Perov (1833-1882). Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), was a Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist.
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Portrait of Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876) a German poet, translator, and liberal agitator. Dated 19th Century
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Portrait of Italian poet and writer Giacomo Leopardi by A. Ferrazzi, 1820, painting
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Portrait of the author Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) by Moller, Fyodor Antonovich (1812-1874)/ State Central Literary Museum, Moscow/ 1841/ Russia/ Oil on canvas/ Russian Painting of 19th cen./ 61,5x49/ Portrait
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David Livingstone 1870 Alexander Craig (active 1840-d. 1878 British) Royal Geographical Society, London, England
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Andre Gill or Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guines, a French caricaturist, caricature, 1882, by Alphonse Hector Colomb pseudonym B. Moloch, a French caricaturist
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Gaetano DONIZETTI, 1797-1848 Italian composer
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Hon. Stephen A. Douglas: of Illinois, national democratic candidate for sixteenth president of the United States  | Library of Congress
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Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, RA, John Pettie (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1839 - 1893) 1883
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Portrait of Multatuli, General Hollands Fotopersbureau, c. 1875 - c. 1940 photograph Portrait of Multatuli, reproduction for the benefit of the newspapers and magazines. Amsterdam photographic support  historical persons
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MARK TWAIN (Samuel Clemens)  American writer       Date: 1835 - 1910
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Famous people in American history, Edwin Forrest (March 9, 1806 in Philadelphia; December 12, 1872 in Philadelphia) was an American actor. He is considered the founder of American acting. Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th-century collectible card. .
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Roger Fenton, Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell, GCB, 1855 Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B.
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867). French poet. Portrait. Engraving, Colored.
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Portrait of multatuli. Portrait of multatuli, reproduction for newspapers and magazines.
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CHARLES DICKENS  Dickens giving a public  reading.       Date: 1812 - 1870
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PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS PEN NAME MARK TWAIN SMOKING A PIPE LOOKING AT CAMERA
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Edmond Rostand (1868-1918), French playwright, photo by Louis Labat, illustration by Edel from L'Illustration, No 3494, February 12, 1910.
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Edgar Allan Poe (19 January 1809 and 7 October 1849) was an American writer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period
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Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert, 1864-1932, German composer, historical illustration, circa 1886
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Portrait of Raoul Rochette Luigi and Josephine Calamatta (after). "Portrait of Raoul Rochette", 1853. Paris, museum of romantic life.
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Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco 1888 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Presidential Possibilities" series (N124), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 cards in 1888 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco.. Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. 1888. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)
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1800s 1860 PORTRAIT EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ENGLISH NOVELIST POLITICIAN PLAYWRIGHT
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Edmond de Goncourt.. 1882. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Cigarettes, Goncourt, Edmond de, 1822-1896
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Mark Twain 1890 Charles Noel Flagg. Mark Twain 10890
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Alfred, Lord TENNYSON 1809-92, English poet, engraving by W. Biscombe Gardner after George Frederick Watts 1817-1904, 1859
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'(John) Sims Reeves (1821-1900) the leading English operatic, oratorio and concert tenor of his day. His career lasted from about 1839 until 1891.  In later life he taucht and wrote about singing. Tinted lithograph c1880.'
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AMBROISE THOMAS French musician in 1889.         Date: 1811 - 1896
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Mathew B. Brady. Artist: Charles Loring Elliott (1812-1868). Dimensions: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm). Date: 1857. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Victor Balaguer (1824-1901). Politician and writer in Catalan and Spanish languages. Colored engraving.
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E. White
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Portrait of Charles Gounod (1818-1893) a French composer. Dated 19th Century
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E. White
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Theodor Bauer 1822-1871, director of the Lower Austrian Escompte Society and Spanish consul, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated
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John Surratt
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Portrait of Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1803 - 1873, an English politician, poet and playwright
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Michael O'Laughlin, Lincoln Conspirator
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Illustration of Ivar Aasen (1813 - 1896), a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright and poet. Dated 1890
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Giuseppe verdi. 1813-1901.
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Portrait of Marcus Stone 1840 1921 Circa 1890 Victorian Painter
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(Jean ) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz (1807-1873) Swiss-born American naturalist and glaciologist, at 19. From Elizabeth Cary Agassiz 'Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence' Boston 1885. Engraving.
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HORACE GREELEY American journalist, with  Whitelaw Reid who succeeded  him as editor of the New York  Tribune.      Date: 1811 - 1872
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Portrait of Nikolai Gogol by Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Oil on canvas, 1841, 1806-1858, Russia, St Petersburg, Institut of Russian Literature IRLI (Pushkin-House),
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Carl Ritter von Ghega (1802-1860) on 20 schilling 1967 banknote from Austria. Designer of the Semmering Railway from Gloggnitz to Murzzuschlag.
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Gaetano Donizetti 1797 - 1848. Italian opera composer
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KING LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA  Reigned March 1864 - June 1886
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