Historical Figures Engravings

Black and white engravings of notable historical figures, capturing their attire and dignified expressions in vintage illustrations.

James Buchanan, Likeness from Life, Engraved by J.C. Buttre, Published by Johnson, Fry & Co., 1857

Carlos Zeferino Pinto Coelho (1819-1893). Jurisconsult and Portuguese politician. Portrait. Engraving by Rico. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1893.

Nicolaas Beets.

Heinrich Leo, 1799 to 1878, a German historian and Prussian politician, historical woodcut, circa 1870, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown, coloured

John Cheyne. Stipple engraving by J. Cochran, 1838, after W. Deey.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852), American lawyer and statesman, at age 67.

James Buchanan 1791 to 1868. 15th President of the United States.From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.

Lewis Cass circa 1848.

Joseph Lister 1st Baron Lister 1827 to 1912 English surgeon, Joseph Lister 1st Baron Lister 1827 to 1912 English surgeon From the book The Year 1912 illustrated published London 1913, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Sir William Lawrence. Wood engraving after T.D. Scott, 1867.

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, German physicist, 1876. Artist: Unknown

Horace Greeley,American newspaper editor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and politician, circa 1870

Moses Taylor 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

1830s PORTRAIT AMERICAN STATESMAN HENRY CLAY CALLED THE GREAT COMPROMISER SERVED SENATOR & JOHN QUINCY ADAMS SECRETARY OF STATE

Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904) Scottish author, best known for his book 'Self-Help' of 1859

Oersted, Anders Sandoee .

Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810 -1870 ) French publicist, historian and Count of Montalembert, Deux-Sèvres. Engraving. Universal History, 1885.

WILLIAM BALY (1814 - 1861) - Medical, studied in France and Germany, practised in London, studied cholera and prison health, one of Victoria's physicians, crushed in railway accident. circa 1850

THOMAS HUGHES, ESQ., M.P., 1872 engraving

James Buchanan, Democratic Candidate for Fifteenth President of the United States, Lithograph & Published by Nathaniel Currier, 1856

Portrait of Charles Lyell (1797-1875) Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. Dated 19th Century

Camillo benso

Wm. Bigler.

Bernard ter Haar. / B. June 18, 1806 --- d. Nov. 19. 1880.

William Clift. Lithograph by W. Bosley, 1849, after A. Claudet.

Portrait of Franz Ludwig Go (1810-1882; Chemist, Industrial). Reproduction by photography / lithography. Frontspizz in: 100 years go. History of the company Go & Co., A.G., Dresden 1835/1935. Dresden: W. Limpert, 1935. Dresden: Slub 34.4.1589

Lord Derby Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl of Derby, Unknown

Thomas Vowler Short, 1790-1872. English author, historian and Bishop of St. Asaph. Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 1. Published in London 1860

Narciso Carbo de Aloy (1826-1890). Spanish physician and researcher. Engraving in The Academy, 1878. Universal Illustrated Weekly. Colored.

'William Connor magee (1821-1891) c1877, Irish-born Anglican churchman, Bishop of Peterborough 1868-1891, Archbishop of York for about four months in 1891.'

John Arthur Roebuck, MP, 1881. Artist: Unknown

'John Arthur Roebuck (1801-1879) c1880, English lawyer and radicalipolitician born in Madras, India: Member of Parliament 1832-1837, 1841-1847, 1848-1868, and 1874-1879.'

CAVOUR, Camillo Benso, conte di (1810-1861). Italian statesman, architect of the Italian Unification. Oil on canvas. Private Collection.

Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891) English politician, free-thinker and social reformer, born Hoxton, London. Lectured under the name 'Iconoclast'. Elected Member of Parliament for Northampton in 1880, he refused to take the oath of alliegance and was expelled from the House. Re-elected and rejected until 1886 when he finally took the oath. Engraving from 'TheI llustrated London News' (London,11 February 1882).

'Portrait of an Unknown Man'. Russia, 1872. Dimensions: 89,5x75,2 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Pyotr Zabolotsky.

William Vernon Harcourt, British Liberal statesman, c1890.Artist: Cassell, Petter & Galpin

'Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) French neurologist, pathologist, and psychologist, a pioneer of neurology who worked at theSalpetriere Hospital, Paris for 33 years.'

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Sir William Withey Gull, 1816 - 1890, an English doctor

Count Ernst Philipp Brunnow, 1797-1875. Russian diplomat. From an engraving 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.

Sir Henry Bessemer. Mezzotint by T. O. Barlow after R. Lehmann.

William Whewell. Wood engraving after Thomas Dewell Scott, 1866.

Noah Webster (1758-1843) Lexicographer Artist Unknown Engraving Underwood Photo Archives, San Francisco, CA, USA

Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor, 1924. Artist: Unknown

William Benjamin Carpenter. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.

Jean-Martin Charcot (1825 - 1893) French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He is best known today for his work on hypnosis and hysteria. Charcot is known as "the founder of modern neurology".

Photographic portrait of W.E. Gladstone, the English Liberal Statesman who was four times Prime Minister of Great Britain. Date: 1800

Richard Cobden, 1783-1862. British surgeon, philosopher, writer and statesman. Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by J.Eastham and Bassano.From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1860

Giacomo Meyerbeer, German opera composer. Artist: Nadar

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister. Photogravure by the Swan Electric Engraving Company, 1895, after J.H. Lorimer.

Charles Moore. October 23, 1937.

Sir William Milbourne James, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal, 1880.Artist: Lock & Whitfield

Samuel Morley, abolitionist, political radical, and statesman, c1890.Artist: Cassell, Petter & Galpin

PETER BARLOW (1776 - 1862) a splendid example of a Victorian 'self- made man', rising from obscure schoolmaster to eminent mathematician, scientist and engineer, professor, F.R.S.&c. circa 1850

PERRONET THOMPSON (1783-1869) PARLAMENTARIO BRITANICO GOBERNADOR DE SIERRA LEONA Y REFORMADOR RADICAL. PERRONET THOMPSON THOMAS 1783-1869.

Eugeniusz Słubicki Styfi, Jan (1841 1921)

The late Commodore Garrison / photographed by Sarony. | Library of Congress

Sir Benjamin Hobhouse 1st Baronet 1757 to 1831 British politician Engraved by J Cochran after J Jackson From the book National Portrait Gallery volume IV published c 1835

Andrew Johnson 1808 to 1875. Seventeenth President of the United States 1865 to 1869. First President to be impeached

Portrait of Marie Henri Beyle, known as Stendhal - 1840 - 62x50 cm - oil on canvas. Author: JOHAN OLAF SODERMARK. Location: MUSEO PALACIO. Versailles. France. STENDHAL HENRY. BEYLE HENRY.

John Hunter 1728-1793

Frederick Lemaitre, 1800 to 1876. Birth name Antoine Louis Prosper Lemaitre. French actor and playwright. From a 19th century illustration.

C.C. Cambreleng.. Hunt, Charles Havens. Prints. 1881. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Cambreleng, Churchill Caldom, 1786-1862

John Quincy Adams. Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander) (1813-1894). Portraits, Prints. 1848. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

PRESIDENT JULES GREVY Portrait of President Jules Gr�vy (1807-1891) . Photography of Etienne Carjat (1828-1906), circa 1880.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Essayist, Lecturer, Poet and Leader of the Transcendentalist Movement, head and shoulders Portrait, Frederick Gutekunst, 1875

Wilberforce, Samuel .

Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), Scottish minister, professor of theology, political economist, and a leader of both the Church of Scotland and of the Free Church of Scotland, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and W

1800s PORTRAIT MARTIN VAN BUREN 8TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES LOOKING AT CAMERA PICTURE BY HENRY INMAN CIRCA 1812

Immermann, Karl Leberecht .

Portrait of John Russell Reynolds (1828-1896) a British neurologist and physician. Dated 19th century

Sir William Withey Gull. Photograph by Barraud.

John Butter. Mezzotint by H. Cousins after J. Lucas.

ANDRES BELLO (1781/1865) - ESCRITOR Y POLITICO VENEZOLANO.

Wilhelm Eduard Weber (Wittenberg, 1804, Gottingen, 1891). German physicist. 19th-century engraving.

Portrait of scholar Ernest Renan by Wilhelm Dreesen on silver gelatin paper, mounted in cabinet format, showing him in formal attire, 1899.

William H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State, March 6, 1861 to March 4, 1869

Horace Greeley 1811 to 1872. American newspaper editor, politician and a founder of the Liberal Republican Party

Alejandro Gabriel Real de Azua (1803-1890). Argentinian poet and playwright. Portrait. Engraving by Arturo Carretero in "La Ilustracio_n Espan_ola y Americana", 1890. Colored.

Webster, Daniel.

Engraving of James Brownlow William, 2nd Marquis of Salisbury, who served as Lord Privy Seal (1852) and Lord President of the Council (1858). He was the father of Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquis, leading Conservative politician of the 1880's and 90's. Date: 1800

Famous people in American history, Horace Greeley (* 3 February 1811 in Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; 29 November 1872 in Pleasantville, New York) was an American newspaper publisher, founder of the New York Tribune, politician and opponent of slavery, Historical, digital reproduction of a collectible picture from the 19th century .

Immermann, Karl Leberecht .

Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, national democratic candidate for sixteenth president of the United States, 1860

William Jennings Bryan, circa 1900

Cobden, Richard (Dunford Farm, Sussex ,1804-London, 1865). English industrial, economist and politician who fought against protectionism. He favored free trade. Engraving.

J. P. Benjamin.

USA: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was the 6th President of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. Daguerrotype, c. 1845

Major Ridge, a Cherokee chief, circa 1838

Portrait of John Franklin (1786-1847) a British Royal Navy Officer and explorer of the Arctic. Dated 19th Century

Famous people in American history, Horace Greeley (3 February 1811 in Amherst) (Hillsborough County) (New Hampshire) ( 29 November 1872 in Pleasantville) (New York) was an American newspaper publisher, founder of the New York Tribune, politician and opponent of slavery, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century collector's picture

Armand de Quatrefages de Breau, Jean Louis (1810-1892). French naturalist and anthropologist. Engraving. Colored engraving.

'(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813-1883) German composer, conductor, and theatre director. He built the Bayreuth Festspielhaus which opend in 1876 with ''Das Rheingold'' to stage his music dramas.'

Edward Livingston, 1764 - 1836. American jurist and statesman. U.S. Secretary of State. After a 19th century engraving by E. Wellmore from a work by J. L. Longacre.

MADOZ , PASCUAL. POLITICO , ESCRITOR Y ECONOMISTA ESPAÑOL . 1806 - 1870. OLEO RETRATO. GALERIA DE RETRATOS DEL CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS . MADRID.

Jacques-Fromental-Elie Levy Halevy (1779-1862). Compositor francés de raza judía.

Carl Ritter (1779-1859). German geographer. Portrait. Engraving, 19th century. Our Century ,1883. Spanish edition.

Portrait of Frank Ives Scudamore (1823-1884) an English Post Office reformer and writer. Dated 19th Century

Alexander von Humboldt

James L. Orr.

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