19th Century Political Leaders

Engravings of notable political leaders from the 19th century, displaying classic clothing and sophisticated poses, reflecting their status.

THOMAS SPRING-RICE, first baron Monteagle Irish statesman Date: 1790 - 1866

Daniel Webster, 19th century American statesman (c1880). Artist: Unknown

BRIGHAM YOUNG Mormon leader who led the Latter-day Saints to their home in Utah. Date: 1801 - 1877

Johann Adam von Itzstein, 28 September 1775, 14 September 1855, a German liberal politician, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault, 2 February 1802, 11 May 1887, French chemist and agronomist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

THOMAS SPRING-RICE, first baron Monteagle Irish statesman Date: 1790 - 1866

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist, physicist and balloonist, c1870. Artist: Unknown

Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, 17 November 1776, 23 September 1861, was a German historian, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Lord Palmerston, (1784-1865), 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Historical drawing from the U.S. history of the 19th century, portrait of Franklin Pierce, 1804 - 1869, 14th President of the United States

The late Sir William Follett M.P., 1845. Portrait of British lawyer and politician William Webb Follett, Attorney-General. 'Sir W. Follett could not have a public enemy; there was something so engaging in his whole demeanour that it disarmed even envy. He was favoured with many natural advantages, among which, unhappily, good health could not be reckoned; his countenance was excessively pleasing, his action graceful, and his voice one of great sweetness; this, united to his legal acquirements, and his singular power of making the statement of the most intricate circumstances clear, precise, an

Johann Ludwig Louis Uhland, 26 April 1787, 13 spongia officinalis (1862), German poet, literary scholar, jurist and politician, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Louis Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869, French composer and music critic

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, November 28, 1793 - September 26, 1866, was a Swedish writer and composer / Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, 28. November 1793 - 26. September 1866, war ein schwedischer Schriftsteller und Komponist, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Gustav Benjamin Schwab, 19 June 1792, 4 November 1850, was a German writer, pastor, and publisher, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century original

Gustav Benjamin Schwab, 19. Juni 1792, 4. November 1850, war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Pastor und Verleger, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion eine...

Conradin Kreutzer, 22 November 1780 - 14 December 1849, a German musician, conductor and composer / Conradin Kreutzer, 22. November 1780 - 14. Dezember 1849, ein deutscher Musiker, Dirigent und Komponist, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Karl Leberecht Immermann, 24 April 1796, 25 August 1840 in Düsseldorf, a German writer, lyricist and dramatist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Carl Gottlieb Reißiger, 31 January 1798, 7 November 1859, was a German bandmaster, composer and musician, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) British writer and cleric. Christian Socialist: Muscular Christianity. Believed in possibility of reconciling science and religion. Wood engraving c1880.

Engraved portrait of George Boole (1815-1865), the English mathematician, philosopher and inventor of Boolean algebra, pictured c.1865. Date: 21 January 1865

Erasmus Robert Freiherr von Patow, 10. September 1804, 5. Januar 1890, war ein preußischer Beamter und Politiker, Deutschland, digitale verbesserte Re...

Francois Arago (1786-1853). French physicist and astronomer. After the revolution of 1848, he was Minister of War and Minister of the Navy in the Provisional Government of the French Second Republic. Portrait. Engraving. "Los Heroes y las Grandezas de la Tierra" (The Heroes and the Grandeurs of the Earth). Volume VI. 1856.

Karl Leberecht Immermann, April 24, 1796 - August 25, 1840 in Düsseldorf, a German writer, poet and playwright / Karl Leberecht Immermann, 24. April 1796 - 25. August 1840 in Düsseldorf, ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Lyriker und Dramatiker, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

CHICHESTER SAMUEL PARKINSON- FORTESCUE, baron CARLINGFORD Statesman, Privy Seal. Date: 1823 - 1898

Francois Guizot (1787-1874). French politic. Minister of the Louis Philippe. Engraving, Our Century, 1883. Spanish Edition.

Historical drawing from the 19th century, portrait of Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Maria Cherubini, 1760 - 1842, an Italian composer

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Justus von Liebig, 1803 - 1873, a German chemist and professor

Historical drawing from the U.S. history of the 19th century, portrait of Alexander Hamilton, 1757 or 1755 to 1804, a politician and one of the founding fathers of the United States

Monsieur Thiers, 1845. Portrait of French statesman and historian Louis Adolphe Thiers. 'The arrival of M. Thiers in the metropolis London has been expected with considerable interest, at Mivart's Hotel, in Brook-street, where Madame Thiers and family have been sojourning for some days...The present is, therefore, an interesting opportunity for introducing to our readers a portrait of the distinguished Visitor, engraved from a highly-finished plate by Robinson...M. Thiers has attracted great attention by the commencement of the publication of his "History of the Consulate and the Empire

Gustav Albert Lortzing, 23 October 1801 - 21 January 185, was a German composer, librettist, actor, singer and conductor / Gustav Albert Lortzing, 23. Oktober 1801 - 21. Januar 185, war ein deutscher Komponist, Librettist, Schauspieler, Sänger und Dirigent, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Engraved portrait of Sir James Brooke (1803-1868), the English soldier, traveller and Rajah of Sarawak, pictured c.1868. Date: 4 July 1868

Friedrich Ludwig Heinrich Haase, 1 November 1825, 17 March 1911, a German theatre actor, theatre director and theatre director, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Charles Didion

Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald, 1 September 1795, 15 January 1866, a Prussian civil servant, minister and prime minister, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Henri Victor Regnault

William Scholefield (1809 1867), British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a leading figure in the politics of the rapidly growing industrial town of Birmingham in the mid-nineteenth century

Historical print, engraving, 1850, portrait of Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, 1785-1860, German historian and statesman, one of the Goettingen Seven, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, von Gustav Koennecke, picture atlas, 1887

MR. ROEBUCK, M.P. John Arthur Roebuck, 1802 1879, British parliamentarian. UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Lieutenant Samuel Gurney Cresswell (1827-1867), naval officer, 1853. Artist: Unknown

John Ericsson (1803-1889) Engineer and designer of the ironclad USS Monitor Wood engraving

George Stephenson

Illustration showing Sir John Hawkshaw (1811 - 1891), English civil engineer. He served as President of the Institute of Civil Engineers 1862-63. His most noteworthy work is the Severn Tunnel.

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, historic illustration from Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, a history of German literature from 1885

Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, 1785 - 1858, a German historian, storyteller, biographer and diplomat

Portrait of James Buchanan (1791-1868), President of the United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 703, Volume XXVII, August 16, 1856.

JOHN, KING OF SAXONY

JOHN LEMOINNE French journalist and senateur, editor of the Journal des debats. Date: 1815 - 1892

Historical drawing, US-American history, 19th century, portrait of William Henry Seward, 1801 - 1872, an American politician, foreign minister of the United States and initiator of the purchase of Alaska from Russia

Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer was an Austrian writer, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original

Manzoni, Alessandro (1785-1873). Italian writer. Leader of the National Romantic movement. Participated in the revolt of Milan in 1848, and was a senator (1860). Nineteenth-century colored engraving.

Col. John Stevens, III (June 26, 1749 March 6, 1838) was an American lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive, first steam-powered ferry, and first U.S. commercial ferry service from his estate in Hoboken.

Georg Simon Ohm, 19th century German physicist, 1906. Artist: Unknown

John Aitken Carlyle, 1801-1879, translator of Dante and younger brother of Thomas Carlyle, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century original

Portrait of Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) an English scientist and inventor during the Victorian Era. Dated 19th Century

RETRATO DE DON AGUSTIN ARGÜELLES ACTUAL TUTOR DE SU MAJESTAD ISABEL II - GRABADO S XIX. Location: MUSEO DEL ROMANTICISMO-GRABADOS. MADRID. SPAIN.

Friedrich August Stüler, 28 January 1800, 18 March 1865, was a German architect who, as a high-ranking Prussian building official, was one of the most influential architects of his time, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century model

Sir Charles Phipps, c1850s. Artist: Unknown

Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, 10. Januar 1803, 3. Dezember 1890, war ein rheinischer Bankier und Politiker, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reprodukti...

Historical print, engraving, portrait of Johann Ludwig Tieck, 1773-1853, German poet, writer, editor and translator of Romanticism, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur by Gustav Koennecke, picture atlas, 1887

Portrait of Sir Henry Alfred Pitman (1808-1908) a British physician. Dated 19th century

The late Viscount Galway, M.P., 1876. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Barraud and Jerrard, of Irish peer George Edward Arundell Monckton Arundell, '...son of the fifth Viscount Galway and Baron Killard....The late Viscount Galway was born in 1805; he was educated at Harrow, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree. He married, in 1838, his cousin Miss Henrietta Milnes, daughter of Robert Pemberton Milnes, Esq., of Fryston Hall, Yorkshire, and sister of Richard Monckton Milnes, now Lord Houghton. He was elected M.P. for East Retford in 1847, and always kept that seat. In po

Portrait of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885) an English politician, philanthropist, and social reformer. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of James Syme.

Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, 4 October 1787, 12 September 1874, a French politician and writer, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Portrait of The Hon. Peter John Locke King (25 January 1811 - 12 November 1885) MP was an English politician. Black and White Illustration

Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, 13 May 1785, 5 December 1860, was a German historian and statesman, known as one of the Goettingen Seven and a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly of 1848-1849, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century document

Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, (c1880). Artist: Unknown

Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Frederik Paludan-Mueller, 1809 - 1876, a Danish writer

Woodcut, Michael Faraday, portrait

Karl August Varnhagen, Varnhagen von Ense, 21 February 1785, 10 October 1858, German chronicler of the Romantic period up to the Revolution of 1848

THE LATE VISCOUNT OSSINGTON, EX-SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1873

CHARLES WORDSWORTH churchman, bishop of St Andrews, Scotland. Date: 1806 - 1892

Illustration showing Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, 1st Baronet (21 September 1806 - 12 March 1885) was an Anglo-American fur merchant, best remembered for his promotion of the transatlantic telegraph cable.

The late Lord Wensleydale, 1868. 'A memoir of Lord Wensleydale, formerly Baron Parke of the Court of Exchequer, but since 1836 a judicial member of the House of Lords, who died on the 25th February, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, was given in the obituary column of this Journal last week. The Portrait of that eminent lawyer, which we have now engraved, will be recognised as very lifelike and characteristic of him. It is copied from the photograph taken by Mr. Samuel A. Walker, of Margaret-street, Cavendish-square'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.

Karl Joseph Simrock, 28 August 1802 - 18 July 1876, was a German poet and philologist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Franz Wilhelm Ziegler, 1803 - 1876, a politician and writer, wood engraving, 1880

Historic drawing, 19th century, portrait of Dom Peter V., 1837 - 1861, King of Portugal from the House of Saxe Coburg and Gotha

Franz Wilhelm Abt, 22 December 1819, 31 March 1885, a German composer and Kapellmeister, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

John Aitken Carlyle, 1801-1879, Übersetzer von Dante und jüngerer Bruder von Thomas Carlyle, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Origi...

Engraved portrait of the Right Rev. Dr. Henry Mackenzie (1808-1892), then Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham, pictured in 1870. Date: 5 March 1870

Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode, 16 February 1774, 25 November 1830, was a French violinist and composer, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Johann Ludwig Uhland, 1787 - 1862, a German poet, literary scholar, lawyer and politician, historical wood engraving, circa 1888

Engraved portrait of Sir William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875), the English composer, pictured c.1875. Date: 13 February 1875

William Ewart Gladstone, 29 December 1809, 19 May 1898, British statesman and liberal politician, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th ...

Historical drawing, portrait of Louis Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869, French composer and music critic

BEP engraved portrait of Buchanan as President

Friedrich August Gotttreu Tholuck, 30 March 1799, 10 conorhynchos (1877), German Protestant theologian, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original

VICTOR HUGO French writer Date: 1802 - 1885

THE LATE SIR JOHN TAYLOR COLERIDGE, (9 July 1790 _ 11 February 1876) was an English judge, ENGRAVING 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Historical drawing from the U.S. history of the 19th century, portrait of James Knox Polk, 1795 - 1849, eleventh President of the United States

Historic drawing, 19th century, portrait of Augustin Eugène Scribe, 1791 - 1861, a French playwright and librettist

The Earl of Dalkeith, President of the Scott Centenary Festival, Edinburgh, 1871. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. James Russell and Sons. 'The Right Hon. Walter Francis, titular Earl of Dalkeith, is the eldest son and heir of the present Duke of Buccleuch, by a daughter of the second Marquis of Bath. Lord Dalkeith was born in 1831, and married, in 1857, Lady Louisa Hamilton, third daughter of the Duke of Abercorn, and has issue, the eldest of whom is Walter Francis, Lord Eskdale. In 1856 he was attached to the special mission to Russia, on the coronation of Alexander, reigning Emperor.

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Francis Leopold von Ranke, 1795 - 1886, a German historian, university lecturer

Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B., late Secretary to the Post Office, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by J. and C. Watkins of '...the author of the Penny Postage...Sir Rowland Hill has lately retired from the public service; but the country will not forget how much it owes to him...It was in 1836 that he applied himself to study the question of Post-office reform...The defects of the system which then existed were manifest...In estimating the first of the items of cost - receiving the letter and preparing it for its journey - Mr. Rowland Hill observed that the postage not only varied in proportion to

Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet, 17. Juni 1797, 4. Mai 1847, Schweizer reformierter Theologe und Literaturhistoriker, digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer...

'Portrait of Lord Ellenborough', c1891. From "Cassell's Illustrated History of India Vol. II.", by James Grant. Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris and New York

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Thomas Moore, 1779 - 1852, an Irish poet, writer, translator, and ballad singer

Thomas Moore, 1779-1852, an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, 1880, historical woodcut, Ireland, Europe

Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805-1881). French statesman and diplomat. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia Universal",1885.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 -1882. American poet and educator.

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