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Engravings of various European politicians, depicting formal attire and dignified poses, reflecting their status and significance.

Engraved portrait of James William Gilbart (1794-1863) an English banker and author. Dated 19th Century

FRNCOIS ARAGO French physicist, photographed in his last year among us. Date: 1756 - 1853

George F. Angas.George Fife Angas brought the first German settlers to South Australia. From the venture grew the rich Barossa Valley. June 19, 1937.

John Marshall (1755-1835) American Jurist & Statesman Stock Montage, Inc.

THE LATE EARL OF DERBY, 1870

Daniel Webster, late 19th century lithograph based on an 1847 daguerreotype by John Whipple of Boston. Webster sought the Presidential nomination when Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party dominated US politics. He is among the great US statesmen, who never became President (BSLOC_2019_7_36)

Painting by Paul Delaroche, portrait du Comte de Pourtales-Gorgier, Robert Jefferson Bingham, Goupil Cie, 1858.

Samuel Houston, General, American politician and governor of Texas. The United States, 19th century.

Eli Whitney (1765-1825) American Inventor

George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900) British Whig (Liberal) politician and scientist. Supported cataclysmic school of geology rather than uniformitarianism. Photograph published c1880. Woodburytype

Engraved portrait of Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, the English politician, lawyer and Lord Chancellor of England. This image was published in 1860 when he was Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh. Date: 26 May 1860

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), English novelist.

Henry W. Longfellow (autograph sign). Portraits, Prints. 1873. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

Jeremiah S. Black, U.S. Secretary of State, December 17, 1860 to March 5, 1861

Sir George Husband Baird Macleod. Photograph.

The Right Honourable John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, British Liberal statesman, c1880. Artist: DJ Pound

Sir John Forbes. Mezzotint by W. Walker, 1857, after J. Partridge.

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790. American statesman, philosopher, scientist, inventor and publisher. From painting by Alonzo Chappel

JOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer as a (fairly) young man

William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863. English novelist. From a photograph.

Edmund Burke (1729-97), British statesman, Parliamentary Orator, and Political Thinker, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson

Sir Henry Halford, British physician, 19th century.Artist: J Cochran

'The Right Honourable The Earl of Aberdeen, K.G.', 1850s. Creator: Daniel John Pound.

CARROLL, Lewis (1832-1898). English writer, mathematician and photographer.

Michael Faraday (1791-1867) British physicist and chemist. From a hand-tinted photograph.

Daniel Webster , Government officials, Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Louis Prang & Company Collection

Composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Hanfstaengl, Franz (1804-1877)

John (1801-1873). King of Saxony (1854-1873). Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

Humboldt, Alexander Freiherr von.

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British politician of the Liberal Party, illustration from a photo by Byrne, from the magazine L'Illustration, year 56, no 2882, May 21, 1898.

William Wyndham Grenville 1759-1834 Speaker of the house of commons in 1789.

CAMILLE DOUCET French playwright Date: 1812 - 1895

President James Buchanan 1850. 15th President of the United States of America

Abraham Lincoln, Reproduction of a 1932 Oil Painting by Charles Sneed Williams

Portrait of Stephen Douglas (1813-1861), American Politician, 19th century

Thomas Babbington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859), British historian, poet and Whig politician, born in Leicester, England. Author of History of England from the Accession of James II (1848) and Lays of Ancient Rome (1842) . Engraving from The Illustrated News of the World (London, ca. 1860), Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Abraham Hathaway Howland was born of Quaker parents in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1802. In 1846 he obtained a charter for the legislature of Massachusetts to manufacture, cotton, wool, and iron under the name of Wamsutta Mills. He was the first mayor of New Bedford, serving from 1847-1851.

SIR HENRY COLE Civil servant, museum director, artist, editor. Date: 1808 - 1882

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature.

THOMAS CHALMERS Scottish churchman with his autograph Date: 1780 - 1847

William Hickling Prescott, 1796-1859. American historian. Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Whipple and Black, Boston. From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 1. Published in London 1860

Photo production of painting by Paul Delaroche: Portrait the M. Emile Pereire.

Sir William Allan. Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843 - 1848)

Self-portrait Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860 American)

Michel Eugene Chevreul (1786-1889). French chemist. Portrait. Engraving by H. Thiriat. "La Ilutracion Artistica", 1886.

John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863) British lawyer and statesman. Lord Chancellor under three different administrations. Son of the Anericn painter John Singleton Copley. Engraving, London, c1860.

Michael Faraday (1791-1867). British physicist and chemist. Colored engraving.

Portrait of George Richards Elkington (1800-1865), 1865 By Samuel West, Oil Painting, Portrait, Male, Birmingham history

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of William Chambers, 1800 - 1883, a Scottish author and publisher

'Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor.'

Johan Joseph Ignaz Dollinger or Doellinger (1799-1890), German Roman Catholic theologian, ordained in 1822. Professor of church history and ecclesiastical law, Munich University. He opposed the idea of papal infallibility and refused to accept it when the Vatican Council pronounced it to be a doctrine in 1870. In 1871 he was defrocked and excommunicated. The German 'Old Catholics' looked on him as a leader, a role he rejected. From 'The Modern Portrait Gallery' (London, c1880). Tinted lithograph.

Portrait of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and Franciscan tertiary. Dated 19th Century

John Arthur Roebuck, 1801-1879, British politician. Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Published in London 1859.

Photographic portrait of James Paget (1814-1899) an English surgeon and pathologist, best remembered for naming Paget's Disease. Dated 19th century

Andrew Jackson, 1767 - 1845, the seventh President of the United States

Henry Montagu Villiers, English Lord Bishop of Carlisle, 1813-1861. Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1859.

Portrait of Pastor J.H. Plomp, board member of the Diakonessenhuis in Batavia.

Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, British diplomat, 1875. Artist: Unknown

William Henry Seward 1801-1872. American politician who negotiated Alaska Purchase. From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.

'James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) English historian, novelist and biographer. Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford 1892-1894. Tinted lithograph c1880.'

Rev. Thomas Warton, Charles Howard Hodges, 1764-1837, British, after Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723-1792, British, 1784, Mezzotint

George Darling. Photogravure by G. Zobel, 1855, after W. Hilton, 1832.

Robert Stephen Rintoul. Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843 - 1848)

Franz Liszt; Nadar, Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910); 1886; Gelatin silver print; 15.4 x 11 cm (6 1,16 x 4 5,16 in.)

WILLIAM CONNOR MAGEE, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) as an old man seated in his study, British Liberal statesman, Oleograph published c1890

James Buchanan, Brown, John Henry, 1857.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1. Baron Macaulay 1800-1859, englischer Historiker, Dichter und Whig-Politiker, geboren in Leicester. Autor der History of England from the basis of James II 1848 und Lays of Ancient Rome 1842. Kupferstich, ca. 1870., Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated

Alexander von Humboldt (17691859), German naturalist and explorer.. Portrait engraved on steel by C. Cook from an original painting by Emma Gaggiotti Richards, from Charles Knight's "Gallery of Portraits" 1835.

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

Franz Liszt; Nadar, Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910); 1886; Gelatin silver print; 15.4 x 11 cm (6 1,16 x 4 5,16 in.)

Portrait of David Cox (1783-1859), 1855. Sir John Watson Gordon. David Cox, artist

Jean Pons Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777) (10 July 1868) was a French soldier, politician and writer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction...

Portrait de Hector Berlioz , Composers, Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869, Alphonse Legros (1837-1911)

President James K Polk 1860. 11th President of the United States of America.

'The Right Honorable Lord Ashbourne', c1899. Creator: Russell & Sons.

Ferdinand Raimund, inv,

Famous people in American history, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (born August 29, 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; died October 7, 1894 in Boston) was an American physician and writer, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th-century collectible card .

Portrait of Heinrich Gottfried Theodor Crone, Founder of the H.G.T. Crone Company in Amsterdam. Portrait of Heinrich Gottfried Theodor Crone (1766-1855), founder of the merchant company H.G.TH. Crone in Amsterdam. Bust, slightly right. Pendant of SK-A-4914.

Joseph Sturge, 1793-1859, British abolitionist, Quaker and philanthropist. Engraving by DJPound after a photograph by Whitlock. From the book The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages, Volume 1, published in London 1860, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated

Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Sully, 1859 Thomas Sully

Jean Pons Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777) (10 July 1868) was a French soldier, politician and writer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

John Brown 1800 - 1859 White American abolitionist From the book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine May to October 1883

Portrait of Samuel Phelps (1804-1878) an English actor and theatre manager. Dated 19th century

Walter Farquhar Hook,1798-1875. Vicar of Leeds and Dean of Chichester.Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Navey of Leeds. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1859.

Col. Richard M. Johnson, Neagle, John, 1796-1865, Johnson, Richard M., (Richard Mentor), 1781-1850, 1900

John C Calhoun, Senator and Vice President of the United States

England/UK: Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867), noted English scientist, photographic portrait c. 1861

Franz GRILLPARZER, 1791-1872, Austrian dramatist

Portrait of W.G. van Dijk, born 1791, clerk at the secretary of the city of Utrecht (1832-1852), died December 2, 1855. Knee piece from the front, sitting.

Sir William Cavendish (1808-1891) seventh duke of Devonshire statesman, benefactor

John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782 - 1850, U.S. Vice President and Senator

WAGNER , RICHARD. COMPOSITOR ALEMAN. 1813 - 1883. GRABADO RETRATO COLOREADO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

Portrait of William Sisley, father of the painter Alfred Sisley, 1864, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).

'Franz Liszt', c1860, (1939). Artist: Franz Seraph Hanfstaengl.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Hungarian pianist and composer, in later life. Engraving from "The Illustrated London News" (London, 1886)

Chauncey M. Depew of New York, 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.. Chauncey M. Depew of New York, 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.)

Famous people in American history, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge) (Massachusetts) (died 7 October 1894 in Boston) was an American physician and writer, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th-century collector's picture

John Bright, 1811 - 1889, a British politician, Manchester Liberals

Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). German geographer & explorer.

Portrait of John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton (1799-1880) a British Conservative politician. Dated 19th century

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