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Engravings and portraits of notable historical figures, highlighting their contributions and prominent status in society.

Frederick William II (1744-1797). King of Prussia (1786-1797). Portrait. Drawing by Lienard. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, part 2, 1879.
Frederick William II (1744-1797). King of Prussia (1786-1797). Portrait. Drawing by Lienard. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, part 2, 1879.
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Charles Lee (1732-1782). British officer who served as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Portrait. Engraving. "Historia biográfica de los Presidentes de los Estados Unidos" (Biographical story of the Presidents of the United States). Published in Barcelona by Montaner y Simón, 1885.
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William Pitt the Younger, 28 May 1759, 23 January 1806, was twice Prime Minister of Great Britain, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19...
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Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (1786 - 1826). German composer of the Romantic school. Colored engraving. 19th century.
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Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American Revolutionary Leader and Orator
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Portrait of Carl Maria Von Weber by Anonymous artist, Etching, Romanticism
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Charles Lamb, English essayist, (1912). Artist: Unknown
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Portrait of a Gentleman 1834 Moses B. Russell. Portrait of a Gentleman 15173
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Sir William Edward Parry (17901855) was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer. His 1819 voyage through the Parry Channel (a natural waterway through the central Canadian Artic Archipelago, was probably the most successful in the long quest for the Northwest Passage. In 1827 he attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole. He reached 82°45? North latitude, setting the record for human exploration farthest North.
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Friedrich Adolf Ebert
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John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), Irish Lawyer and Statesman, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New
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Portrait of Frederick H. Hemming. Date/Period: Ca. 1824-25. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 76.20 mm (3 in); Width: 64.50 mm (2.53 in). Author: THOMAS LAWRENCE.
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Juan Velazquez de Leon (-1520). Spanish conqueror. Portrait in "Atlas Pintoresco e Historico de los Estados Unidos de Me_xico (1885). Engraving.
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Arthur Middleton 1742 to 1787 American statesman and Founding Father A signatory of Declaration of Independence 19th century engraving by J.B. Longacre after a drawing by T. Middleton from a group in a family picture by Benjamin West
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José Francisco de Isla (1703-1781), also known as El Padre Isla. Spanish novelist and Jesuit. Portrait. Engraving by J. Furnó. Detail. Historia de las persecuciones políticas y religiosas en Europa (History of political and religious persecutions in Europe). Volume IV. Published in Barcelona, 1865. Author: Joaquín Furnó i Abad (1832-1918). Spanish engraver.
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Portrait of Reverend William Holwell Carr, English priest, art dealer, art collector and painter, 17581830. Steel engraving by Benjamin Holl after a portrait by John Jackson from the National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Masters, published by Jones and Co., Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, London, 1836.
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Roger B Taney (1777 - 1864) American lawyer, chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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Historical print, portrait of Carl Ludwig Boerne or Juda Loeb Baruch, 1786 - 1837, a German journalist, literary and theater critic, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, Illustrated Atlas of the History of German National Literature, by Gustav Koennecke, 1887
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Tadeusz or Thaddeus Kosciuszko 1746-1817. Polish army officer and statesman From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.
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Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1825 Nathaniel Rogers American. Portrait of a Gentleman. Nathaniel Rogers (American, Bridgehampton, New York 1788-1844 Bridgehampton, New York). American. ca. 1825. Watercolor on ivory
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Portait of John Dryden, 1631 - 1700, an English poet, literary critic and playwright
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James Beattie, Scottish academic and writer, (1870).Artist: GB Shaw
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JOHN MILTON
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Rev. Christopher Edwards Gadsden 1819 Charles Fraser The sitter (1785-1852), later bishop of Charleston, was a rector at the time he sat for Fraser.. Rev. Christopher Edwards Gadsden 10904
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JOSE MARIA HEREDIA (1803-1839) - POETA CUBANO.
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William Gaston, 1778 - 1844, American jurist
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T. Matthew Pratt ca. 1790 American. T. Matthew Pratt 15226
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Robert Jameson 1774-1854, Scottish mineralogue, professor of natural history in Edinburgh from 1804 to 1854. Together with David Brewster, he founded the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. From Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie London, 1875., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated
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John Glover 1732 - 1797. American fisherman,merchant and military leader. Brigadier general during The American Revolutionary War. From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.
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John Baron 1786 to 1851 Scottish physician Engraved by W Holl after H Room From the book The National Portrait Gallery Volume III published c1820
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Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) 'The Liberator'. Irish patriot and political leader who worked for Catholic emancipation which was granted by the British parliament in 1829, and for Repeal (of Union with Britain) movement. Engraving after Thomas Carrick (d1874).
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Richard Bright 1789 to 1858 British physician Engraved by H Cook after T R Say From the book The National Portrait Gallery Volume 1 Published c1820
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John Philpot Curran, 1750 - 1817. Master of the Rolls in Ireland.  Politician, lawyer and judge.  After a 19th century engraving.
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Niccolò paganini. 1782-1840.
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NICHOLAS BIDDLE American financier, president  of Bank of the United States,  involved in political  controversy, resigned & wrote  a history of Lewis & Clark.     Date: 1786 - 1844
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Robert Burns. June 01, 1953.
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Edmund BURKE, 1729-97, English statesman, writer, parliamentarian and opponent of Crown policy in America, mezzotint, J Watson after Joshua Reynolds, 1767-9
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William Henry Harrison 1773 to 1841, 9th President of the United States, After a painting by Alonzo Chappel, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Portrait of the poet Robert Southey (1774-1843), Masquerier, John James (1778-1855)
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FRANCISCO ARANGO PARREÑO - 1765/1837 - POLITICO Y ECONOMISTA CUBANO.
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Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769 to 1830 English portrait painter collector and President of the Royal Academy Engraved by J Thomson after Charles Landseer From the book National Portrait Gallery volume III published c 1835
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John Payne Todd ca. 1817 Attributed to Joseph Wood American The sitter (1792-1852) was the firstborn son of John Todd Jr. (-1793) and Dolley Payne (later Dolley Madison).. John Payne Todd 10753
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PORTRAIT ANDREW JACKSON 1767 - 1845 AMERICAN PRESIDENT GENERAL BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS WAR 1812 TENNESSEE DEMOCRAT HUMBLE MAN
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Robert Burns 1759-1795, schottischer Dichter, geboren in Alloway, in der Nähe von Ayr. Burns starb an rheumatischer Endokarditis. Kupferstich aus A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen von Thomas Thomson 1870., Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated
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Portrait of Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827, Samuel William Reynolds (London, England, 1773 - 1835)
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William, Fifth Duke of Devonshire. May 26, 1955.
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Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, 1786-1826, German composer, conductor and pianist
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George Gordon Byron (1788-1824), Lord Byron, English Poet, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New Y
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Earl of Derby (29 March 1799 - 23 October 1869) English statesman; three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party.
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Daniel O'Connell byname The Liberator 1775 to 1847 first of the great 19th century Irish leaders in the British House of Commons Engraved by W Holl after T Carrick From the book The National Portrait Gallery Volume IV published c1820
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Archibald Campbell Tait (1811-1882), British churchman born in Glasgow to Presbyterian parents. Confirmed in the Scottish Episcopal church in his first year at Oxford.  Bishop of London, 1856: Archbishop of Canterbury from 1868.  From The Modern Portrait Gallery (London, c1880). Tinted lithograph.
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David Garrick 1717 to 1779 English actor, playwright, theatre manager, producer. Engraved by James MacArdell after Benjamin Wilson
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Historical engraving, 19th century, portrait of George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, Lord Byron, 1788 - 1824, British poet
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Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British Statesman, Orator, and Writer  Stock Montage, Inc.
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Benjamin Franklin. 1848 - 1885. Portraits, Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Albany Congress (1754 : Albany, N.Y.), Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
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Charles Lamb in his thirtieth year,in the dress of a Venetian Senator. Penname Elia 1775-1834 English essayist. From the painting by William Hazlitt
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Meno Haas (1752-1833); Jens Juel (1745-1802), Michael Rosing, 1803
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Mary Somerville (1780-1872), Scottish Science Writer, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New York,
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