19th Century Literary Figures

Engravings of influential writers and intellectuals from the 19th century, showcasing their importance in culture and society.

FERRAN, Jaime (1852-1929). Spanish bacteriologist. Engraving by A. Carretero.

Francisco Pi y Margall (1824-1901). Spanish statesman and writer. Engraving.

Lord Salisbury' (1830-1903), British statesman, 1896. Artist: Unknown

Juan Jose Latorre Benavente (1846-1912). Chilean naval officer. Portrait. Engraving by Capuz in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1879. Colored.

Anselmo de la Portilla (1816-1879). Spanish journalist and writer. Portrait. Engraving by Capuz. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1879

Imhof, Heinrich.

MARIANO ESCOBEDO Mexican soldier and statesman Date: 1827 - 1902

Narciso Diaz de Escovar (1860-1935). Spanish poet and writer. Portrait. Engraving by Rico. Colored.

Jules Favre (1809-1880). French republican politician. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra Franco-Alemana de 1870-1871". Published in Barcelona, 1891.

Dickens, Charles .

Portrait of Lorenzo Casanova Ruiz (Alcoy 1844 - Alicante 1900) was a Spanish painter of the 19th century, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Victor Balaguer, born 1824, died 1901, Catalan politician and author. From La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana of 1881, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Cyrus W Field - theman who laid the Atlantic Cable. CyrusWestField(1819 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, alongwithother entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

MR. ARTHUR VERE

John Poyntz Spencer (1835 - 1910), 5th Earl Spencer.

JOHANN STRAUSS

Vlaho Bukovac, 1898 - 1900, Kovačević, Stjepan. Publisher, Nakl. Maticevog litografskog zavoda, Zagreb, Croatia. Biography of Bukovac, Vlaho (1855-1922)

Candido Nocedal (1821-1885). Politician, lawyer and Spanish journalist. Portrait. Engraving.

'Henry Tamworth Wells (1828-1903) British portrait painter and miniaturist, pictured c1878. Elected Royal Academician in 1870.'

Eleuterio Maisonnave y Cutayar (1840 - 1890). Spanish politician who served as Minister of State in 1873, during the presidency of Francisco Pi y Margall in the First Spanish Republic. Colored engravin by Carretero. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1890.

Medecz, József.

Raimundo Fernandez-Villaverde y Garcia del Rivero, jure uxoris Marquis of Pozo Rubio, (1848-1905). Spanish statesman. Portrait. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1884.

Karl Gisbert Friedrich Freiherr von Vincke, 1813, 1892, a German poet-lawyer and Shakespeare scholar, ca. 1889, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, a German poet-lawyer and Shakespeare scholar, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Heinrich Laube (1806-1884). German writer and theater director. Facsimile reduced of an engraving by J. Sonnenleiter. The Universal History, 1883.

Francesc Pi i Margall (Barcelona, 1824-Madrid, 1901). Político republicano.

'General Grant', c1870-1880, (1890). Creator: Unknown.

Portrait of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1852-1934. Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (1804-1872) German philosopher and anthropologist.

Portrait of Edward Portman (1771-1823) an 18th-century housing developer and politician. Dated 19th century

Michael von Zichy , Mihály Dt, Michael Zichy, Hungarian painter from new illustrated newspaper , Unknown

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre born 1832 died 1916. Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman and dramatist. He won 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature. From La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana of 1881

Louis Léon César Faidherbe (1818-1889) was a French general and colonial administrator. He created the Senegalese Tirailleurs when he was governor of Senegal

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) -19th President of the United States (18771881). Oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction. Date: circa 1880

Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov, (1859 - 1943) Russian historian and liberal politician. Milyukov was the founder, leader, and the most prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic party (known as the Kadets). In the Russian Provisional Government, he served as Foreign Minister, working to prevent Russia's exit from the First World War.

Portrait of Frederick VIII, Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl, 3 June 1843 - 14 May 1912, was King of Denmark from 1906 to 1912, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century.

Pierre-Napoleon Bonaparte (Rome ,1815-1881). Nephew of Napoleon I. Named Prince by Napoleon III. Engraving. 19th Century.

Portrait of Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885), president of the United States of America, United States of America, drawing from The White Conquest, 1875, by William Hepworth Dixon (1821-1879), from Il Giro del mondo (World Tour), Journal of geography, travel and costumes, Volume IV, Issue 21, October 19, 1876.

Adolphe de Forcade La Roquette (1820-1874). French lawyer and politician. Portrait. Engraving by R. Cremer. "Historia Universal", 1885. Colored.

Portrait of Miguel de los Santos Álvarez (Valladolid, 1818 - Madrid 1892). Spanish writer belonging to Romanticism. Romanticism movement. Genre Poetry

Engraving of J. W. Malcolm, Esq. M.P. for Boston. Dated 1860

LEON Y CASTILLO , FERNANDO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. 1842 - 1918. GRABADO RETRATO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA , AÑO 1880.

Narciso Diaz de Escovar (1860-1935). Spanish poet and writer. Engraving by Rico. Portrait. 19th century.

Casto Plasencia y Maestro (1846-1890). Spanish painter. Portrait. Engraving by J. Dieguez. 19th century.

JOSE MARTIMIANO DE ALENCAR. ALENCAR JOSE MARTINIANO DE.

LUCIO VICENTE MANSILLA 1831-1913.

Felix Pyat (1810-1889). French Socialist journalist and politician. Portrait. Engraving.

Portrait of Joseph Joachim at the age of 59.

Tito RICORDI, 1811-88 Italian music publisher, engraving

Leon Gambetta, 2 April 1838, 31 December 1882, was a French statesman of the Third Republic, digital improved reproduction of an original 19th century print

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812 - 1870) Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism"

Justo Rufino Barrios (1835-1885). Guatemalan military and politician. President of Guatemala (1873-1885). Portrait. Engraving, 19th century.

SIR THOMAS GRESHAM

Portrait of Juan de Ribera Piferrer (1811-880). Civil engineer. His best known civil engineering works were the first deposit of the Canal de Isabel I

Eduardo Gasset y Artime (1832-1884). Spanish journalist, writer and politician. Portrait. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1884.

JOSHUA "EMPEROR" NORTON I Claimant to the imperial throne of North America (1859); he made a fortune in real-estate speculation Date: 1819 - 1880

George S. Boutwell (1818-1905). American politician. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870. Colored.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain.

Charles XV (1826-1872). King of Sweden and Norway (1859-1872). Colored engraving.

LOPEZ Y LOPEZ , ANTONIO. Antonio López y López de Lamadrid, I marqués de Comillas (1817-1883). Empresario y banquero español. Presidente de la Compañía Trasatlántica Española y de importantes instituciones de crédito. Dibujo por Badillo. Grabado por Arturo Carretero (1852-1903). La Ilustración Española y Americana, 30 de enero de 1883.

Luis Matos de Potestad (b. 1828). Marquis of Heredia and Spinola. Politician. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1877. Colored.

Portrait of Adolfo Chaquert captain of the transatlantic steamship mail Alfonso XII, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

Josep Oriol Mestres i Esplugas (1815-1895). Spanish architect. Portrait. Engraving. 19th century. Colored.

Jose Francisco Vergara Echevers (1833-1889). Chilean politician, founder of Vina del Mar. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1880.

CHARLES CECIL JOHN MANNERS SIXTH DUKE OF RUTLAND English Statesman. Date: 1815 - 1888

Charles Winans Chipp (1848 - 1881) was a United States Navy officer and explorer. The Jeannette expedition of 1879-1881, Journal of Captain George Washington De Long 1879-1881. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1906

Theobald Chartran, 1849-1907, French, Politicians - Vanity Fair. 'France at the Congress'. Mr. William Henry Waddington.' 28 September 1878, 1878. Chromolithograph.

Hermann Ritter von Lingg, 1820 - 1905, German poet who also wrote plays and short stories/Hermann Ritter von Lingg, German poet who also wrote plays and short stories, historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original original from the 19th century, exact original date not known, subsequently colored

James Baird (1802-1876) Scottish industrialist and ironmaster, born at Old Monkland, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Conservative Member of Parliament for Falkirk Burghs (1850-1857). Although against unionisation of his workforce, he was interested in the education of his workers. Engraving, 1873.

Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann (4 December) (25 March 1907) was a German surgeon and full professor of surgery at the University of Dorpat from 1871, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

ALONSO MARTINEZ, MANUEL. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . BURGOS 1827 / 1891. OLEO DE F . MENDOZA. ATENEO DE MADRID. SFGP / © KORPA.

Prince Robert (Robert d'Orleans) (1840-1910). Duke of Chartres. Orleanist pretender to the French throne. Grandson of King Louis Philippe I of France. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). English novelist. Portrait of Charles Dickens. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Antonio González de Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo, born 1824, died 1908, Prime Minister of Spain from 4 December 1906 to 25 January 1907. From La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana of 1881, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

'George Granville William Sutherland Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1828-1892), British Liberal nobleman, courtier, and diplomat. Tinted lithograph c1880.'

Portrait of Eugenio Sánchez de Fuentes (1826 - 1894) Spanish writer, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Portrait of Marie Francois Sadi Carnot (Limoges 1837 - Lyon 1894) French politician, President of the Third Republic of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894. France. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Portrait of Henri Dillens, Albert Dillens, 1873 print paper etching adult man. historical persons

Simon, August Heinrich.

Heinrich Barth (1821-65) German explorer and geographer. Engaged by the British government to accompany James Richardson (d1851) and the German geologist Adolf Overweg (d1852) on an expedition in north and central Africa (1850-1855). Engraving.

Felix Charles Douay (1816-1879). General in the French army. Portrait. Engraving. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1870.

Juan Antonio Mateos Lozada (1831-1913). Playwright, novelist, poet and Mexican liberal politician. Engraving by A. Carretero. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1879.

THE LATE MR. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Vicente Blasco Ibanez, 1867-1928. Spanish novelist. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Spanish and Portugeuse, Volume 18""

Adolf Arnold Louis Palander commander of the SS Vega ship (1842-1920) Swedish naval officer captain. The Voyage of La Vega through Asia and Europe by Adolf Erik Nordenskiold 1879-1880, Le Tour du Monde 1882

Eduard Freiherr von Bach (born 21 December 1814 in Loosdorf, died 8 February 1884 in Vienna) was an Austrian politician and civil servant, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Rosenberg, Friedrich.

THE LATE LORD LYTTON, Der verstorbene Edward Bulwer Lytton aus The Illustrated London News, Unknown

Mariano Jose de Larra y Sanchez de Castro (1809-1837). Spanish writer, journalist and politician. He belonged to the literary movement of Romanticism. Drawing by Jose Cebrian. Portrait. Lithography. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Nueva, 1869.

Pierre-Napoleon Bonaparte (Rome, 1815-1881). Nephew of Napoleon I. Named Prince by Napoleon III. Engraving. 19th Century.

Count Hans Wilczek, Hans Graf Wilczek, polar researcher and art patrons Humorist leaves of K, Klic , Karl Klic -, Artist, Angerer , Göschl, Realization

Portrait of Louis Philippe Robert of Orleans (Twickenham 1869 - Palermo 1926) Orléanist claimant to the throne of France. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

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Leon Gambetta (Cahors, 1838-Ville d'Avray, 1882). French politician, one of the founders of the Third Republic (1870-1914). He was premier of France Engraving from November 14, 1881 to January16 , 1882. Engraving from La Ilustracion Espan_ola y Americana, 1883. Unknown author. Later colouration.

ALPHONSE DAUDET French writer Date: 1840 - 1897

Ahmed Sefik Midhat Pasha (1822-1883). Ottoman statesman during the late Tanzimat era. Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Portrait. engraving by Capuz in "La IIustracio_n Espan_ola y Americana", 1876.

Portrait of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy, Dated 19th Century

Pope Stephen IX, c. 1020 - 1058, reigned from 3 August 1057 to his death

Horace Vernet (1789-1863). French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. Portrait. Engraving by Marta Berguer. "L'Univers Illustre", 1862. Colored.

Feuerbach, Ludwig (1804-1872) German philosopher. Engraving by A. Etching Newmann. Coloured.

MITRE , BARTOLOME. MILITAR Y POLITICO ARGENTINO. 1821 - 1906. GRABADO RETRATO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA , AÑO 1872.

TAMBERLICK , ENRIQUE. CANTANTE LIRICO ITALIANO. 1820 - 1890. GRABADO RETRATO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

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