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Historical Figures in Engravings

Detailed prints of influential individuals from the 18th and 19th centuries, often featuring elaborate clothing and facial expressions.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, also written Anschel, 1744 - 1812, was a German-Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, Germany/Mayer Amschel Rothschild, written also Anschel, was a German Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, Germany, historically, digitally restored reproduction of an original original from the 19th century, exact original date not known, colored later
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, also written Anschel, 1744 - 1812, was a German-Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, Germany/Mayer Amschel Rothschild, written also Anschel, was a German Jewish banker and the founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty, Germany, historically, digitally restored reproduction of an original original from the 19th century, exact original date not known, colored later
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Edward Rushton (17561814) was a British poet, writer and bookseller from Liverpool, England. He worked as a sailor aboard a slave ship as a young man, and became an abolitionist as a result. After losing his own vision, he opened a school for the blind, the oldest continuous such school in the world
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Pio VII (1761-1830), papa de la iglesia católica desde 1800 hasta su muerte. Grabado de 1840.
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Jean Causeur (1642 - 1772) the butcher from Ploumoguer. Said to have lived 130 years. Basse Bretagne, France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1888
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Return, Friedrich.
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Historical drawing from the 19th century, portrait of Andreas Hofer, 1767 - 1810, a freedom fighter and leader of the Tyrolean uprising of 1809
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Winckelmann, vintage engraving. Winckelmann, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1846. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673184
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Antoni Tyzenhauz (1733-1785). Count, the Last Treasurer of Lithuania, Maecenas of Art and Education. Portrait by Jan Rustem (1762-1835). Copy, 19th century. Vilnius Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
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Sebastiani, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885
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'Edward Fitzgerald', (1923). Artist: Unknown
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Horatio Nelson (1758-1805). Primer Vizconde Nelson. Vicealmirante de la Marina Real Británica, conocido por sus victorias durante las Guerras Revolucionarias Francesas y las Guerras Napoleónicas. Vencedor en la Batalla de Trafalgar. Retrato. Grabado. Coloreado. La Ilustración Española y Americana. 22 de octubre de 1876.
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Pius VI (civil name Giovanni Angelo Count Braschi, born 25 December (1) 1717 in Cesena, Papal States, died 29 August 1799 in Valence) was the 250th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799. He had previously been a priest from 1758 and a cardinal from 1773. At 24 years, his pontificate was one of the longest in church history, Historical, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, subsequently coloured
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Cambronne, vintage engraving. Cambronne, vintage engraved illustration. History of France 1885. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10656578
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Benjamin Franklin, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes. Dimensions: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (7 x 3.8 cm). Publisher: Issued by Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia). Date: 1888.Printer's samples for the collector's album "World's Inventors" (A25), issued in 1888 to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Citing Burdick's "The American Card Catalog": "Souvenir albums of this type, as issued by the tobacco companies, were probably intended to replace the individual cards if the smoker so desired, or at least enable him to own the entire collection of designs without the difficulty attendant to obtaining all the individual cards in a set. Later, their popularity induced the tobacco companies to publish a few albums that had no card counterparts. All were given in exchange for coupons packed with the cigarettes, usually 75 or 100 coupons for each album...All date in the 1888-1890 period." This series depicting inventors w
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Lucas van Leyden 1489-1533 Pseudonym Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz Dutch artist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Der falsche Dmitri, Juri Otrepjew, als Mönch Grigori Otrepjew, Pseudo-Dimitri oder Pseudo-Demetrius, geboren um 1580, 27. Mai 1606, war 1605 als Dimit...
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MAZARREDO , JOSE DE. MARINO ESPAÑOL . 1745 - 1812. GRABADO RETRATO. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL . MADRID.
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CIMAROSA, Domenico (1749-1801). Italian composer. Etching.
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Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867), British sculptor, 19th century.Artist: J Smyth
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J. L. Macadam, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes 1888 Issued by Allen & Ginter American Printer's samples for the collector's album "World's Inventors" (A25), issued in 1888 to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Citing Burdick's "The American Card Catalog": "Souvenir albums of this type, as issued by the tobacco companies, were probably intended to replace the individual cards if the smoker so desired, or at least enable him to own the entire collection of designs without the difficulty attendant to obtaining all the individual cards in a set. Later, their popularity induced the tobacco companies to publish a few albums that had no card counterparts. All were given in exchange for coupons packed with the cigarettes, usually 75 or 100 coupons for each album...All date in the 1888-1890 period." This series depicting inventors was never issued as individual cards and only released in album form. However, this set of printer
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Venice, Senate of Venice, Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista, Pitteri, Giovanni Marco, Marcus Pitteri Venetus in aere incisor, Portrait of printmaker Giovanni Marco Pitteri, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 460 mm, width 356 mm, Italian, 1702-05-24 - 1786-08-04, print maker, printmaker, 1712 - 1786, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1682-02-13 - 1754-04-29, after, after a painting by, grantor of privilege
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FRANCISCO RENATO VIZCONDE DE CHATEAUBRIAND (1768-1848) ESCRITOR Y POLITICO FRANCES. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. CHATEAUBRIAND FRANCISCO RENE.
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Mikail Vasilievich Lomonosov. Colour process print, 1953, after M. Steiner.
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JOAQUIN JOSE MURO Y BADAURRETA, MARQUES DE SOMERUELOS, PRESIDENTE DEL CONGRESO DEL 13 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1837 AL 1 DE ENERO DE 1838. Author: GARCIA BROCARA JOSE LUIS. Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Portrait of Robert Strange (1721-1792) a Scottish engraver. Dated 18th Century
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Hans Caspar Escher vom Glas, also Hans Caspar Escher in the Felsenhof, August 9, 1775 in Zurich, died August 29, 1859 in Herrliberg, was a Swiss industrial, social pioneer, politician and architect, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date not Stated
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GIRODET-TRIOSON, Anne Louis Girodet de Roucy, called (1767-1824). Portrait of Chateaubriand. 1811. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles.
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Winkelmann, 9. Dezember 1717 - 8. Juni 1768, war ein deutscher Archäologe, Bibliothekar, Antiquar und Kunstschriftsteller der Aufklärung / Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Winkelmann, December 9, 1717 - June 8, 1768, was a German archaeologist, librarian, antiquarian and art writer of the Enlightenment period, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.
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GILL, AndrŽ (1840-1885). Portrait of Hector Berlioz. end 19th c. FRANCE. Versailles. Palace of Versailles. DŽtail from the portrait of Berlioz formerly attributed to Honore Daumier. Work done after a photograph of Nadar. Oil on canvas.
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Moses Mendelssohn, 6 September 1729, 4 January 1786, was a German philosopher of the Enlightenment, 1782-1783, was a German author, historical, digitally improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723, 1792, English painter
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John Everett Millais (1829-1896) British Pre-Raphaelite painter, c1870. A founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. After 1870 he painted mainly portraits and landscapes. Elected President of the Royal Academy in 1896. From The Worlds Great Men. (London c1870).
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Jacob Tonson the elder, 1655-1736, an eighteenth-century English bookseller and publisher
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Arthur Middleton, 1742 to 1787, American Statesman and Founding Father Signer of the Declaration of Independence 19th century engraving by JB Longacre after a drawing by T Middleton, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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ANTONIO JOSE CAVANILLES- 1745/1804- NATURISTA ESPAÑOL. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Antonio Barceló Pont de la Terra (1717-1797), teniente general de la armada española. Grabado de 1877.
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Woodcut, Friedrich Schiller, portrait
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Red Jacket. Seneca war chief / on stone by Corbould from a painting by C.B. King. Print shows Red Jacket; head-and-shoulders portrait; facing slightly right; wearing coat and large medallion that shows Red Jacket meeting George Washington in 1792.
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Portrait and engravings of historical figures from the works of Friedrich von Schiller
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Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850). German Prussian sculptor. Engraving, 1883.
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SIN IDENTIFICAR. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish painter. Lithography, detail. Later colouration. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Catalonia. 1866.