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Engravings of notable historical figures, including scientists and writers, featuring detailed line work and classical attire in muted tones.

Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 23 November 1719 - 28 January 1794, a German music publisher and typographer / Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 23. November 1719 -28. Januar 1794, deutscher Musikverleger und Typograf, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 23 November 1719 - 28 January 1794, a German music publisher and typographer / Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 23. November 1719 -28. Januar 1794, deutscher Musikverleger und Typograf, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
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Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko, 4 February 1746 - 15 October 1817, was a Polish military engineer, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century.
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Portrait of Pieter Christoffel Wonder, born Utrecht 10 Jan 1780, painter, draftsman and founder and first director of the Kunstliefde Society in Utrecht (1807-1823), deceased Amsterdam 12 July 1852.
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Lord Boston. Artist: Unknown
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Musee de Montpellier. Portrait of Canova, vintage engraving. Musee de Montpellier. Portrait of Canova, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678121
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Portrait of Monsieur Hertault of Lienay, in Profile, turned to the Left. Rene-Michel Slodtz (Michel-Ange) (1705-1764). Red chalk. 43.3 x 34.3cm
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Annibale Carracci, 3 November 1560, 15 July 1609, an Italian painter and engraver, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century original
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller, from 1802 von Schiller, 10 November 1759- 9 May 1805, was a physician, poet, philosopher and historian, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown
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Canova, Antonio.
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Donato Lazzari Bramante (1444-1514) Italian architect and painter From "The Gallery of Portraits" Vol VI by Charles Knight (London, 1836) Engraving
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Johann Ludwig Tieck, 31 May 1773, 28 April 1853, often just Ludwig Tieck, was a German poet, writer, editor and translator of the Romantic period. He also published under the pseudonyms Peter Lebrecht and Gottlieb Färber, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown
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Ludwig Johann Tieck, 1773-1853, German writer, illustration from the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Hector Boece or Boyce (1465-1536), known as the Scottish Boethius, Scottish philosopher, born in Dundee, a friend of Erasmus, first rector of Aberdeen University (1500), engraving from A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Thomas Thomson (1870), Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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ANGEL SAAVEDRA Y RAMIREZ DE BOQUEDANO- DUQUE DE RIVAS. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA DE MADRID-GRABADOS ByN. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Fergusson, William (Scottish, 1808-1877). English surgeon. Engraving by A. Carretero.
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Adrian Ludwig Richter, 28 September 1803, 19 June 1884, was an important German painter and draughtsman of the late Romantic and Biedermeier periods, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century
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Philippus Aureolus Theophrastur Paracelsus, physician, alchemist and astrologer, 1493 - 1541, historical illustration, portrait, 1880
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Vicente Gonzalez Moreno (1778-1839). Spanish general who took part in the Spanish War of Independence and the First Carlist War, supporting the Carlists. Engraving by Jose Gomez. Panorama Español, Crónica Contemporánea. Madrid, 1842. Author: José Gómez. Spanish engraver.
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Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France from 1774, was put on trial by the revolutionary National Assembly in December 1792. He was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. French Revolution. Lithograph, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
1899-53515325
Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, October 24, 1739 - April 10, 1807, by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach, regent, patron and composer / Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, 24. Oktober 1739 - 10. April 1807, durch Heirat Herzogin von Sachsen-Weimar und Eisenach, Regentin, Mäzenin und Komponistin, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.
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John Locke English philosopher by Kneller, 17th cent.
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Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand 1768 bis 1848 Französischer Schriftsteller, Politiker und Diplomat / Francois-Rene vicomte de Chateaubriand 1768 to 1848 French writer politician diplomat Lithograph by Lemercier after drawing by Achille Deveria, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,
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Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Constantin Joseph Nikolaus Erbprinz too.
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Pick up, Juan.
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historical illustration
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Tirso de Molina, pseudonym of Gabriel Tellez (1579-1648). Spanish dramatist. Drawing by Jpse Cebrian. Portrait. Detail. Lithography. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Nueva, 1869.
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RETRATO DE CARLOS III REY DE ESPAÑA (1716/1788). Author: PABLO ALABERN Y MOLAS (1804-1860). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, 2 April 1719, 18 February 1803, poet, patron of literature and collector of the German Enlightenment and exponent of the Enlightenment culture of friendship, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century original, original date unknown
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Historical drawing from the 19th century, portrait of George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, 1788 - 1824, a British poet
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Paracelsus (Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) (1493-1541). Swiss physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. Engraving.
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Fergusson, William (Scottish, 1808-1877). English surgeon. Engraving by A. Carretero.
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Jean-Paul Marat, 1743-1793, was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist, journalist and politician during the French Revolution, 1880, historical woodcut, Germany, Europe
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Denis Petau, Dionysius Petavius, (born 21 August 1583 in Orleans, died 11 December 1652 in Paris) was a French Jesuit and famous chronologist and historian, colored woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction.
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First print of "Werthers Leiden" by J.W. von Goethe, 1744, Werther
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Garrick in Hamlet, vintage engraving. Garrick in Hamlet, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1873. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10679574
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Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Christian Johann Heinrich Heine, 1797 - 1856, a German poet, writer and journalist
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Francis Marion, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume III, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1897
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Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober, (1796 - 1882), was an Austrian po+E46+D51:D57+D51:D58+D51:D60+D51:D61+D51:D63+D51:D64+D51:D65+D51:D67+D51:D66+D51:D65+D51:D64+E46+D51:D57+D51:D63+D51:D62
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Portrait by Anonymous, woodcut, private collection
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Thomas Webster, RA, John Callcott Horsley (London, England, 1817 - 1903) 1886
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Max Müller (1823-1900). German-born philologist and Orientalist. Engraving. Nuestro Siglo, 1883, Barcelona, Spain.
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Michel Cullerier. Lithograph by Ducarme after H. Garnier.
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Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist, 18 October 1777, 21 November 1811, a German dramatist, storyteller, lyricist and publicist, illustration by Peter Friedel, which the poet had made for his fiancee Wilhelmine von Zenge in 1801, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, original date unknown
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William Hogarth (1697 A_i_1764). English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, and engraver. Engraving. "The Iberian Illustration, 1888". Colored.
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Martin Luther 1483 to 1546 German theologian after a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder 1472-1553
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Edmund Spenser approx. 1552 to 1599 English price strainer and author of The Faerie Queene, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated,
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Frescobaldi, Girolamo.
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Self-portrait by Grimm, Ludwig Emil (1790-1863) Private Collection 1813 Etching Germany Romanticism Portrait Graphic arts
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Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener, 1714 - 1771, portrait, historic illustration, 1880
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Favart, Charles Simon .
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Portrait of M Bertin by Ingres This portrait of Monsieur Bertinis an 1832 oil on canvas painting bythe French Neo-Classical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It depictsLouis-François Bertin(1766-1841), the French writer, art collector and director of the pro-royalistJournal des débats.The painting is housed in the Louvre Museum.
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Henry Box Brown. Illustrations. 1849. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-, Slavery, Fugitive slaves , United States
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Patie Birnie, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852.
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Historical illustration from the 19th Century, handwritten dedication to Goethe and a portrait of Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni, 1785 - 1873, an Italian poet and writer
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Portrait of an Artist. Ary Scheffer; Dutch, 1795-1858. Date: 1825-1835. Dimensions: 28 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (73 x 59.8 cm). Oil on canvas. Origin: Netherlands. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon, 1747 - 1825, French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist, Dendera zodiac, Ancient Dendera Temple complex, Dendera, Egypt, digitally edited