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Detailed illustrations of prominent historical figures in formal attire, representing European politics and culture from the 1800s.

Sir THOMAS DYKE ACLAND Ithe younger) Statesman, depicted in 1881 Date: 1809 - 1898

Tomas Padro Peret (1840-1877). Spanish artist. Portrait. Engraving by A. Carretero, 1877.

Joaquin Lopez Puigcerver (1841-1906). Spanish politician. Engraving by Badillo. La Ilustracion Espanola y Norteamericana, 1886. Colored.

Emile Zola (1840-1902) French journalist and novelist of the Naturalistic school. Engraving published in 1893 when he was invited to give a paper to the conference of the Institute of Journalists in London. The title of the paper he gave was 'L'Anonymat dans la Presse' (Anonymity in Journalism). Engraving.

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795) (5 February 1881) was a British historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century original

Wilhelm Karl Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, 8 September 1831, 15 November 1910, was a German writer and storyteller. He was a representative of poetic realism, known for his socially critical stories, novellas and novels, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century work

Charles Ferdinand Gambon (1820-1887). Notable French republican of the 19th century, democratic-socialist. Member of the 1848 Constituent Assembly, he took part in the Paris Commune and belonged to the International Workingmen's Association (called the First International, 18641876). Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (Madrid, 1823-1894), compositor, historiador y musicólogo castellano. Grabado de 1892.

Johann Christian Gottlieb Franz Otto Spamer, 29 August 1820, 27 November 1886, a German bookseller and publisher of books and periodicals in Leipzig, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Georg Moritz Ebers (1837-1898). German Egyptologist and novelist. Engraving. Nuestro Siglo, 1883, Barcelona, Spain.

Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (5 August 1811 - 12 February 1896) was a French composer, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

Prince Pierre Bonaparte, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by M. Disderi. 'The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, by the High Court of Justice of the French Empire, for the manslaughter of Victor Noir, commenced at Tours on Monday last...The prince, elder brother of the Emperor Napoleon I.,...passed a wandering life in his youth and early manhood, taking part in the insurrections and revolutionary plots of South America, Italy, and Greece; he was once imprisoned in the Papal States, and once narrowly escaped pursuit on the Albanian coast. After the French Revolution of February, 1848, he came

William von Wickede, 1830 - 1895, a German vice-admiral, historical engraving, about 1889

Emanuel Geibel in the year of his death, 1884, historic illustration from History of German Literature from 1885

Hendrik Conscience, 3 December 1812, 10 September 1883, a Flemish storyteller and co-founder of Flemish literature, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century original

Leopold II, 9 April 1835, 17 December 1909, actually Leopold Ludwig Philipp Maria Viktor, French Leopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor, Dutch Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor, of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was Duke of Brabant and Prince of Belgium until 1865, succeeding his father Leopold I on the throne of the Kingdom of Belgium. From 1865 to 1909 he was King of the Belgians, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

SIR SYDNEY HEDLEY WATERLOW statesman and benefactor, donor of the new public park at Highgate, London. Date: 1822 - 1906

Johann, Johann Salvator of Austria-Tuscany, 25 carcharodus flocciferus (1852), 2 February 1911 was a member of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsb...

Hippolyt August Schaufert, dramatic poet, born 5 March 1835, historical engraving, c. 1869, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, coloured, exact date unknown

Count Gyula Andrassy de Csikszentkiraly et Krasznahorka, 8 March 1823, 18 February 1890 was a Hungarian statesman who served as Prime Minister of Hungary, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Portrait of Julio Monreal y Ximénez de Embún (Zaragoza 1830 - 1890) Spanish writer and lawyer, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

BENJAMIN HARRISON 23rd US President (1889-93). Date: 1833 - 1901

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834 - 1892, an English Baptist pastor and a popular preacher during the 19th century

Portrait of Aristides da Silveira Lobo (Cruz do Espírito Santo 1838 - Barbacena 1896) jurist, politician and journalist and Brazilian republican abolitionist, at the time of the Empire. Brazil. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

Portrait of William Hepworth Dixon (1821 - 1879) British historian, traveler and writer. Old engraving illustration, Travel to Free Russia 1869 by Wil

Johannes Scherr, 1817-1886, a German art historian and writer, historical engraving, circa 1869

Wilhelm von Wickede, 1830 - 1895, a German vice admiral, historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Berthold Auerbach or Moses Baruch Auerbacher, 1812 - 1882, a German writer

'Colonel Redvers Buller', c1880. Artist: Unknown.

Vischer Wycinek from the German press stuck to the album card (Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807 1887) German writer and philosopher) unknown

Illustration from a photo of Mr. Henniker Heaton, politician and founder of the Imperial Penny Post system. Date: July 23rd 1898

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 19th century print

August Wilhelm Ambros, November 11, 1816 - June 28, 1876, was an Austrian music historian, music critic and composer / August Wilhelm Ambros, 11. November 1816 - 28. Juni 1876, war ein österreichischer Musikhistoriker, Musikkritiker und Komponist, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Portrait of Frederick VIII Christian Frederik Vilhelm Carl, 1906 to, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, 3 June 1843, 14 May 1912, was King of Denmark

Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) English explorer and anti-slavery campaigner. With Speke helped establish sources of Nile. In 1864 reached and named Lake Albert Nyanza between Uganda and Zaire. Photograph London c1880. Woodburytype.

Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, vintage engraving. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678150

Movers and seconders of the Address in the two Houses of Parliament: Mr. J.P. Corry, M.P., 1880. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Fox. 'Mr. James Porter Corry, M.P. for Belfast, is a son of Mr. Richard Corry, merchant, of that city, by Jane, daughter of Mr. James Porter, of Ballyrussell, county Down. He Avas born at Newtownards, in that county, in 1826, and is a ship- owner and merchant, and a magistrate for Belfast. He has sat in Parliament for that city since February, 1874. He is married to a daughter of Mr. W. Service, merchant, of Glasgow'. From "Illustrated London Ne

Emile Zola (1840-1902) French journalist and novelist of the Naturalistic school. Engraving published in 1893 when he was invited to give a paper to the conference of the Institute of Journalists in London. The title of the paper he gave was 'L'Anonymat dans la Presse' (Anonymity in Journalism). Engraving.

Illustration showing Alfred, Lord TENNYSON British POET 1880

Wilhelm von Kardorff, 1828 - 1907, full name Wilhelm Carl Friedrich August Hellmuth Ludwig von Kardorff, a Prussian politician and entrepreneur, historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century.

Alfred, lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) English poet

THE LATE MR. KEELEY HALSWELLE, ARTIST, R.I. AND A.R.S.A.

Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894). British explorer. Engraving in The Illustration. Universal Magazine, 1876. Colored.

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895) French chemist and bacteriologist.

Charles Stuart Parnell, 19th century Irish Politician, c1874-1891. Parnell (1846-1891) was a supporter of the Irish Land League, which campaigned for land reform and against the administration of estates in Ireland by absentee landlords.

Jacob Dolson Cox, Jr. (1828-1900). North american politician. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870.

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS, 1875: New Governor of Madras

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841-1920). Spanish painter. Portrait. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), 1878.

Samuel Colt (1814-1862), American inventor and industrialist, shown here with the Colt revolver, the weapon which, after the Mexican war of 1846-8, was adopted by the US army. From 'The Illustrated London News', 22 November 1856. Wood engraving.

Portrait of Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (1824-1878) a Scottish soldier and ornithologist. Dated 19th Century

Hieronymus Lorm, Heinrich Landesmann, 9 August 1821, 3 December 1902, was an Austrian poet, journalist and literary critic, also the inventor of the Lorm alphabet, a tactile alphabet for the deaf-blind, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown

Ferdinand II of Portugal (1816-1885). German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Kohary, and King of Portugal jure uxoris as the husband of Queen Maria II, from the birth of their son in 1837 to her death in 1853. Portrait. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustracion Española y Americana.

Portrait of Wilhelm Röntgen (1845-1923) a German mechanical engineer and physicist, who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays of Röntgen Rays. Dated 19th century

Portrait of Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (1826-1902) an administrator in British India and a British politician. Dated 19th Century

''Alphonse Karr, 1808 -1890.', 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 42. July to December, 1890.

Historic drawing, portrait of Karl or Carl Wilhelm, 1815 - 1873, a German choir master and composer of the song Die Wacht am Rhein

Chatrian, Alexandre (1826-1890), novelista francés. Grabado de 1890.

Ludwig Steub, 1812, 1888, a German writer and lawyer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, a German writer and lawyer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Jakob Dubs (26 July 1822 - 13 January 1879) was a Swiss politician, journalist, public prosecutor and judge, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Henri Eugene Philippe d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale (Paris, 1822, Zucco, 1897). Fourth son of Louis Philippe. In 1840 he took part in the campaign of Algeria, was named governor general of the French dominions in Africa in 1847. After the fall of Louis Philippe in the 1848 revolution, he emigrated to Britain. Engraving.

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Robert Browning, 1812 - 1889, an English poet and playwright

Carl Wilhelm, Karl Wilhelm, 5 September 1815, 26 August 1873, German conductor, choral director and composer, his most famous composition is the song Die Wacht am Rhein oder The Watch on the Rhine

RIVERO , NICOLAS MARIA. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. MORON DE LA FRONTERA 1814 - 1878. GRABADO RETRATO COLOREADO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

SIR TITUS SALT Manufacturer and philanthropist

Portrait of Manuel María de Santa Ana (Seville 1820 - Madrid 1894) Journalist, playwright and Spanish politician, first Marquis of Santa Ana. Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Paul Ludwig Adalbert Falk, 10 August 1827, 7 July 1900, was Prussian Minister of Culture, Germany, digital improved reproduction of an original 19th century print, Europe

Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of American President, James A. Garfield, on 2nd July 1881. Date: 1881

Historical print from the 19th century, portrait of Theophile Gautier, 1811 - 1872, a French writer

Engraving of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, the English Conservative Statesman, published in 1870. On the death of Disraeli in 1881, he became leader of the Conservative party and was British Prime Minister several times in the 1880's and 90's. Date: 1870

JULES VERNE French writer of many popular science fantasies : photo 1888. Date: 1828 - 1905

CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) ESCRITOR INGLES. Location: NATIONAL LIBRARY. France.

Gerlach, Jacob.

Teodoro Llorente Olivares (1836-1911). Spanish writer. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1890. Colored.

Paul Ludwig Adalbert Falk, 10 August 1827 - 7 July 1900, was Prussian Minister of Culture, Germany, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century.

Portrait of Werner von Siemens (1816-1892) a German inventor, industrialist and brother of Friedrich Siemens. Dated 19th Century

Friedrich I von Baden, 9 September 1826, 28 September 1907, full name Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Baden, was regent between 1852 and 1856 and Grand Duke of Baden from 1856 until his death in 1907, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Heinrich von Stephan, Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Stephan, 7. Januar 1831, 8. April 1897, Generalpostdirektor für das Deutsche Reich, Historisch, digital r...

Pierre Curie (1859-1906). French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Salomea Sklodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel.

Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert, born Hippolyte Fierens, 1870, 1926, Belgian opera singer, professor of art history and theory, art critic, writer and chief...

NAPOLEON III. EMPERADOR DE FRANCIA. 1808-1873. GRABADO RETRATO.

Wilhelm von Kardorff, 1828, 1907, full name Wilhelm Carl Friedrich August Hellmuth Ludwig von Kardorff, a Prussian politician and entrepreneur, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, full name Wilhelm Carl Friedrich August Hellmuth Ludwig von Kardorff, a Prussian politician and entrepreneur, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Historical engraving, portrait with autograph of Karl Viktor Muellenhoff, 1818-1884, German Germanic medievaliast, 19th century, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur by Gustav Koennecke, illustrated atlas, 1887

Mor Jokai (1825-1904). Hungarian dramatist and novelist. Nuestro Siglo, 1883, Barcelona, Spain.

Alberto Aguilera Velasco (1842-1913). Spanish politician and lawyer. Engraving by Carretero. Colored.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian and essayist. Engraving.

Theodor Hermann Meynert. Lithograph by Baelz.

Historical engraving, 19th century, portrait of Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, 1832 - 1916, Spanish dramatist and politician

Portrait of Georg Wigand (1808-1858), publisher in Leipzig, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 647, Volume XXVI, July 21, 1855.

Breton, Thomas (Salamanca 1850-Madrid, 1923). Spanish composer. From 1872 to 1876 he directed the Musical Art Union. He was choirmaster and director of the Teatro Real and professor and director of the Conservatory of Madrid. He composed nine operas. Nineteenth-century engraving.

Otto Roquette, 19. April 1824 - 18. März 1896, ein deutscher Schriftsteller, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, historisch

Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert (1831-1890), 4th Earl of Carnarvon. Artist: Unknown

PEDRELL , FELIPE. COMPOSITOR ESPAÑOL.TORTOSA 1841 - 1922. GRABADO RETRATO. ILUSTRACOION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

Archuke Frank Karl Joseph of Austria (1802-1878). House of Habsburg. Father of tw emperors (Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico). Portrait. Engraving, 1878. Colored.

Nicolas Carlovitch de Giers, Nikolai Karlowitsch de Giers, 1820 - 1895, Russian minister of foreign affairs, historic image, 1883

Gumersindo Azcarate Menendez (1840-1917). Spanish politician and sociologist. Engraving.

St Thomas Aquinas (c1225-1274) Italian philosopher and theologian; joined Dominican order (Black friars); studied under Albertus Magnus at Cologne; wrote commentaries on Aristotle. Copperplate engraving

Paul Feval (1816-1887). French novelist and dramatist. Engraving by Llanta. Colored.

Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890). French writer. Portrait. Engraving by H. Thiriat. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1890. Colored.

Chester Alan Arthur, 1829, 1886, was Vice President from 4 March to 20 September 1881 and then the 21st President of the United States until 4 March 1885, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, was Vice President from 4 March to 20 September 1881 and then the 21st President of the United States until 4 March 1885, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Portrait of Jose Ortiz de Tarancon agent of the Spanish Transatlantic Company, a maritime transport company for large transoceanic vessels in Montevideo, Uruguay. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

RETRATO DE SALUSTIANO DE OLOZAGA - GRABADO S XIX. Author: P BARCALA-GRABADOR SIGLO XIX. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-GRABADOS BLANCO Y NEGRO. MADRID. SPAIN.

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