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19th Century Portraits of Women

Vintage portraits of 19th century women in elaborate dresses, showcasing varying postures and expressions, set against subdued backgrounds.

Florence Nightingale

LOUISE COLET French writer of indifferent verse who nevertheless sustained flights of passion with de Musset, Hugo, Karr and Flaubert : photo 1874. Date: 1810 - 1871

Photograph of Minna Planer (1809-1866) a German actress and first wife of the German composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Dated 19th Century

Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English Heiress and Philanthropist, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Joh

Mrs. Mary B. Pearse (). C.L. Weed (American, 1824 - 1903)

Florence Nightingale

Lady Bury

Miss Anna Wood

Hayes, Mrs. R.B.

A photograph of a young Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, as well as a celebrated English social reformer and statistician. She was given the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" because of her habit of making nursing rounds at night during the Crimean War. Lived between May 1820August 1910.

ANGELA, baroness BURDETT- COUTTS wealthy widow and benefactress with her autograph Date: 1814 - 1906

Portrait of Mrs Lundström.

Marquise de Sers. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Faust. Tragic play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Portrait of Margaret, character of the work and love of Faust. Engraving by Paar. The Illustration, 1884.

Mrs. Van Zandt

Mrs. Chanfrau

Hayes, Mrs. R.B., wife of Pres.

Mrs. Geo. H. Gilbert

Potrait of Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland VA, from 1888 Empress Frederick, November 21, 1840, August 5, 1901, was Queen of Prussia and German Empress., woodcut from the year 1888, Germany, Europe

Mrs. Clara Walters

Mrs. Warren Rogers (Julie Francoise Gabrielle d'Anterroches) 1839 Theodore Lund The sitter, the daughter of Joseph Louis, chevalier d'Anterroches, of France, and Mary Vanderpoel of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, married Warren Rogers (1981.447.3).. Mrs. Warren Rogers (Julie Francoise Gabrielle d'Anterroches) 11456

Queen Margherita of Savoy (1851-1926), 1902, photograph by Guigoni and Bossi, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXX, No 3, January 18, 1903.

Mrs. Grant

Susan B. Anthony 1865. A prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.

Susan B. Anthony 1865. A prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.

Mrs. Chanfrau

Clara Schumann (born Clara Wieck - 1819-1896) German pianist in old age. Widow of composer Robert Schumann. From a photograph. Halftone.

Ambrotype - Delphine Bleau, Hochelaga, QC, 1859

Gesina GRIEG, mother of Edward GRIEG, 1843-1907 Norwegian composer

Anna E. Dickinson

Hayes, Mrs. Rutherford B.

Portrait of Mrs. Montaland (V.1810- Apartment 1878), Mother of C�line Montaland. Portrait of Mrs. Montaland (V.1810- Apartment 1878), Mother of C�line Montaland. Business card (front). Draw on albuminum paper. 1878-04-12-1878-04-12. Anonymous photography.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) - American novelist and anti-slavery campaigner

Louisa May ALCOTT 1832-88, American author of over 30 books and short stories, including Little Women

Isabella II (1830-1904). Queen of Spain (1833-1868). She was the elder daughter of Ferdinand VII by his fourth wife, Maria Cristina. Proclaimed queen on her father's death in 1833. During her minority (1833-1843), her mother and General Espartero acted as regents. Isabella settled in Paris, where in 1870 she abdicated in favour of her elder surviving son, the future king Alfonso XII (1874-1885), after the Revolution of 1868. Portrait of the Queen mother during the reign of Alfonso XII. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espa-ola y Americana, July 30, 1876.

Lucretia Coffin Mott. F. Gutekunst photograph, .Philadelphia, Pa. ca. 1870

Photographic portrait of Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), the English philanthropist, pictured in 1885. Date: 05/01/1907

Pauline Cushman

Mrs. Theodore Camp Charles Cromwell Ingham (American, 1796-1863). , ca. 1845. Oil on canvas, 29 15/16 x 24 15/16 in. (76 x 63.3 cm). American Art ca. 1845

Lizzie Whittle; American; 1864 - 1866; Albumen silver print

Woman in bonnet, bust portrait | Library of Congress

RETRATO DE MATILDE DIEZ ACTRIZ ESPAÑOLA - SIGLO XIX. DIEZ MATILDE. ROMEA JULIAN ESPOSA.

Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950, three-quarters length portrait, seated, facing slightly left

Mrs. J.J. Crittenden

GEORGES SAND French writer and folklorist, famous for her unconventional life-style and her string of lovers who included de Musset and Chopin. Date: 1804-1876

Portrait of George Sand, (Aurora Aurora Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, Say), (1804-1876), (novelist, dramatic author, literary critic, journalist) Bertall (Charles Albert d'Arnoux, said, 1820-1882). Portrait of George Sand, (Aurora Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, Say), (1804-1876), novelist, dramatic author, literary critic, journalist. Business card (front). Draw on albuminum paper, 1860-1876.

Clara Barton (1821-1912) Founder of the American Red Cross Stock Montage, Inc.

Mrs. J.E. Rea

Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Luise Wilhelmine Friederike Caroline Auguste Julie von Hessen-Kassel, Louise Wilhelmine Frederikke Caroline Auguste Julie, 1817, 1898, Queen of Denmark, woodcut, portrait, Denmark, Europe

Italy. Piemonte. Cavour. House of Giovanni Giolitti. Giolitti's Wife Rosa Sobrero

A photograph of a young Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, as well as a celebrated English social reformer and statistician. She was given the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp" because of her habit of making nursing rounds at night during the Crimean War. Lived between May 1820August 1910.

Portrait bust of Anna G. Dostyevskaya (1846-1918), wife of the author Fyodor Dostoevsky by Lorenkovich, N.A. /The State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow/1878/Albumin Photo/Russia/Portrait

Mrs. Annie C. Hyde 1863 John Wood Dodge American. Mrs. Annie C. Hyde 15050

Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810-76), Wife of U.S. President Andrew Johnson, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Engraving by J.C. Buttre, 1883

LA REINA MADRE MARIA CRISTINA DE BORBON - GRABADO S XIX. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-GRABADOS BLANCO Y NEGRO. MADRID. SPAIN. Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies. MARIA CRISTINA DE PARMA. PARMA MARIA CRISTINA DE. ESPOSA DE FERNANDO VII-REINA DE ESPAÑA.

Portrait of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Queen of Württemberg (1822-1892), Russian Photographer

Portrait of GUF. Hamilton.

Emma, Queen of Sandwich Islands

1800S 1860S Portrait Pauline Cushman Spy For Union Aka Scout Of The Cumberland Captured By Confederates Sentenced To Death Rescued By Union Troops

Anna Vasilievna Korvin-Krukovskaya (married Jacquelar); prose writer and public figure ca. 1880.

Julia Holman

Ellen Richards

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1820 10 March 1913)

Portrait of Anastasiya Grigoryevna Dunayevskaya, Photo studio Russov, Oryol

Mrs. Daniel Tracy. John A. Mather (American, 1829 - 1915)

Portrait of a Young Lady Jefferson Gauntt (American, 1805-1864). , 1838. Oil on canvas, 27 9/16 x 25 in. (70 x 63.5 cm). American Art 1838

Susan B. Anthony 1890.Frances Benjamin Johnston

CHARLOTTE BRONTE British author

1864 PORTRAIT OF GEORGE SAND BY NADAR AMANTINE AURORE LUCILE DUPIN BARONESS DUDEVANT FRENCH NOVELIST

ISABEL II DE BORBON - 1830/1904. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-GRABADOS BLANCO Y NEGRO. MADRID. SPAIN. ISABEL II REINA DE ESPAÑA (1830-1904).

Julia Gardiner Tyler, Wife Of Pres. John Tyler No Date

Laura Bateman

Mrs Franklin Pierce, First Lady of the United States from 1853 - 1857, circa 1850

Charlotte Reuterskiöld, born Wrangel Charlotte Reuterskiöld, född Wrangel

United States: c. 1843 A portrait of author Margaret Fuller. She was a journalist and an early women's rights advocate.

Queen Victoria(1819-1901), pictured here in 1858.

Belva Lockwood (1830-1917), was a lawyer, politician and life long feminist. In 1879, she became the first women to be allowed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and ran for president in 1884 and 1888 on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party.

Betty Paoli, 1814 - 1894, an Austrian poet, novelist, journalist and translator, historical engraving, about 1889

Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna of Russia, Princess of Oldenburg (1838-1900), Russian Photographer

Martha Johnson Patterson, Daughter of U.S. President Andrew Johnson and First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson, served as Hostess for her Father during his Presidency due to her Mother's Illness, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Engraving by J.C. Buttre, 1880

Isabel II de España (1830-1904). Grabado de 1870.

Geneva, New York November 1905Susan B. Anthony poses for a portrait a year before her death at Lochland in Geneva, New York. Photograph taken by J.E. Hale. This photograph is used by The Susan B. Anthony Memorial Association as her official photograph.

Mrs. Ednah Cheney

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Photograph by Swaine.

RVD / Royal House photo collection. Queen Juliana, 1956. 1956

Mrs. F. E. W. Harper, Author and Lecturer, Philadelphia, Pa. Portrait of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.. Photographs. 1902. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African American women authors, African American women, African American poets, Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911

Photograph of Minna Planer (1809-1866) a German actress and first wife of the German composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Dated 19th Century

Clara Schumann / Barraud, Herbert Rose (1845-1896) / Albumin Photo / 1896 / England / Private Collection / Portrait

01/01/1890. Concepcion Arenal.

Eunice Harriet Brigham. Artist: Chester (Charles) Harding (American, Conway, Massachusetts 1792-1866 Boston, Massachusetts). Dimensions: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm). Date: ca. 1835. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait, Mrs. Thomas Boylston, by Copley, at Harvard , Portrait paintings, Boylston, Thomas, 1721-1798. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Florence Nightingale (1820 -1910) English nurse and statistician. From 'The Illustrated Midland News, 19 March 1870. Wood engraving.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), British nurse. Artist: Unknown.

Woodburytype image of George Sand, circa 1863

Mrs. Alexander (Sarah Giraud) Grant Junius Brutus Stearns (American, 1810-1885). , ca. 1858. Oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 8 11/16 in. (27 x 22 cm). American Art ca. 1858

Portrait of a Lady ca. 1835 John Wood Dodge American. Portrait of a Lady 15049

Maggie Mitchell

Pomare IV, Queen of Tahiti (28 February 1813 - 17 September 1877), more properly Aimata Pomare IV Vahine-o-Punuateraitua (otherwise known as Aimata - meaning: eye-eater, after an old custom of the ruler to eat the eye of the defeated foe - or simply as Pomare IV), was the queen of Tahiti between 1827 and 1877. She was the fourth monarch descended from the Pomare dynasty. She was the daughter of Pomare II. She succeeded as ruler of Tahiti after the death of her brother Pomare III when she was only 14 years old. She succeeded in reuniting Raiatea and Porapora (Borabora) with the kingdom of Tahiti. She ruled under the French administration from 1843 until 1877. Pomare IV is buried in the Royal Mausoleum, Papaoa, Arue. She was succeeded by Pomare V, who reigned 1877-1880.

QUEEN VICTORIA (1819-1901) about 1890

United States: c. 1870 A portrait of Harriet Tubman, African-American abolitionist and a Union spy during the American Civil War.

THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENT-ELECT GARFIELD

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