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Engravings of distinguished historical figures, showcasing varied attire and styles from the 19th century, with a focus on expression and individuality.

RICHARD BETHELL, first lord WESTBURY statesman, lord chancellor Date: 1800 - 1873
RICHARD BETHELL, first lord WESTBURY statesman, lord chancellor Date: 1800 - 1873
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Portrait of James Watt (1736-1819) a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist. Dated 19th Century
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Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 - April 19, 1882) was a British naturalist. He is considered one of the most important natural scientists because of his contributions to the theory of evolution, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original of that time..
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Juwelier Charles Christofle (1805-1863) gründete das Unternehmen Orfevrerie Christofle, ein französischer Hersteller von feinem Silberbesteck, Histori...
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Rene Goblet, 26 November 1828, 13 September 1905, French politician, 41st Prime Minister of France in 1886-1887, Historic, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century document
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Pierre Antoine Berryer (1790-1868). French lawyer and speaker. Colored engraving.
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Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, 2 March 1810, 20 July 1903, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, Italy, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digitally improved, historical, Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, 2 July 1903, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, Italy, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digitally improved, historical, Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, 2 July 1903, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, Italy, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digitally improved, historical, Europe
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John Murray Forbes (1813 - 1898) was born in Bordeaux, France. His parents were Ralph Bennett Forbes and wife Margaret Perkins, niece of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, founder of a Boston Brahmin family merchant dynasty involved in the China trade. The Forbes family settled in Milton, Massachusetts, where his father was an energetic but unsuccessful businessman who died when John was only six. Forbes attended school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, then at Round Hill School in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1823-28. He was one of three brothers sent by their uncle to Canton (now Guangzhou), China, and achieved some financial success during a short time spent trading in Canton. However, unlike his brother Robert Bennet Forbes who devoted himself to the China trade, Forbes returned to Boston and became an early railroad investor and landowner. Although Forbes' is best known as a railroad magnate, much of his fortune was based in the opium trade to China. It is said that his opi
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Engraved portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), the Danish writer and poet, c.1870. Date: 17 April 1875
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Michael William Balfe (1808-70) Irish-born English composer and singer. Studied with Rossini. Conductor of London Italian Opera 1846. Best remembered for his opera 'The Bohemian Girl' (1843). Engraving c1870.
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Johann Ludwig Louis Uhland, 26 April 1787, 13 November 1862, was a German poet, literary scholar, lawyer and politician, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown
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Gaspard Deguerry (1797-1871). French ecclesiastic, parish priest of the Madeleine, executed on 24 May 1871 in Paris in the prison of La Roquette, during the events of the Commune. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.
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ELIAS BOUDINOT American statesman, involved in the Revolution, later director of the U.S. mint. Date: 1740 - 1821
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1890S 1900S Portrait Of William Mckinley 25Th President Of The Unted States Killed By Assassin'S Bullet 1901
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Historic lithography from the 19th century, portrait of Francois Charles Devinck, a French chess player
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Reverend Baptist Wriothesley Noel, 1799-1873. Baptist minister. Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1860
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Martin Sigismund Eduard von Simson, 1810, 1899, was a German jurist and important liberal politician of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire, who served as President of the Frankfurt Parliament and as the first President of the German Bundestag and the Imperial Court, Situation at the Time of the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Historic steel engraving from the 19th century, portrait of Karl August Georg Maximilian Graf von Platen-Hallermuende, 1796 - 1835, a German poet
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), poet, drawing by Heideloff 1831
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Captain Charles Sturt. November 07, 1946.
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Historical drawing from the 19th century, portrait of Henry Fawcett, 1833 - 1884, a blind British politician and economist
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Portrait of Giovanni Battista Niccolini (1782-1861), Italian playwright
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Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886) American lawyer, politician and diplomat, born at Boston, Massachusetts. Minister to England (1861-1868). Engraving c1880.
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Ernst Moritz Arndt, 1769 - 1860, writer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, portrait, historical illustration, 1880
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Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (1818-1898) on engraving from 1800s. Scottish scientist and Liberal politician. Engraved by C.Cook after a picture by A.Claudet and published by W.Mackenzie.
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Pascual Madoz Iba_n_ez (1806 Ð 1870), Spanish politician, statistician. Colored engraving by Paris. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana,1870.
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Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Friedrich Halm or Eligius Franz Joseph Freiherr von Muench-Bellinghausen, 1806 - 1871, an Austrian poet, novelist and playwright
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Historical engraving, 19th century, portrait of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baron of Abbotsford, 1771 - 1832, Scottish poet and writer
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CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE French writer Date: 1804 - 1869
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Benjamin Franklin Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827 American)
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Portrait of Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), British naturalist who studied the transmutation of species. London, Surgeon House. Location: SURGEON HOUSE. LONDON. ENGLAND.
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Portrait of Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) a British mathematician. Dated 19th century
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Jean Daurat, 1508 - 1588. French poet, scholar and member of the pleiaiau. From Science and Literature in the Middle Ages by Paul Lacroix, published in London 1878, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated
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Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), French Statesman, Journalist and Historian, Second Elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Eu
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Historical drawing, portrait of Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897, German composer, pianist and conductor of Romanticism
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Jules Méline (1838 A_i_ 1925) . French statesman, prime minister from 1896 to 1898. Engraving, 1892. Colored.
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LOUIS PASTEUR French scientist in 1852 Date: 1822-1895
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Gaspard Deguerry (1797-1871). French ecclesiastic, parish priest of the Madeleine, executed on 24 May 1871 in Paris in the prison of La Roquette, during the events of the Commune. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.
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Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) Italian-born English philanthropist and campaigner for Jewish Rights. From The Illustrated London News (London, 3 November 1883). Engraving.
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Portrait of Antoni Massana (1890-1966) a Catalan Jesuit priest and composer. Dated 20th Century
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Davies Gilbert 1767 to 1839 British scientist and antiquary President of the Royal Society Engraved by J Thomson after H Howard From the book National Portrait Gallery volume II published c 1835
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Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers, 15 April 1797, 3 September 1877, French statesman, woodcut, France, Europe
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Charles Darwin, 1809 1882, 45 years old. British naturalist. After a photography in 1854 by Maull and Fox, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated
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Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Johann Ludwig Uhland, 1787 - 1862, a German poet, literary scholar, lawyer and politician
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Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, 1769 - 1859, portrait, historic illustration, 1880
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Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original
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Florian Robert (1794-1870), Austrian industrialist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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The Bowring Treaty is the name given to an agreement signed on April 18, 1855 between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Siam that liberalized foreign trade in Siam. The Treaty was signed by King Mongkut of Siam and Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong and Britain's envoy. Sir John Bowring, KCB (Chinese translated name: 寧,靈 or 包令) (17 October 1792 - 23 November 1872) was an English political economist, traveller, miscellaneous writer, polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong.
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Ignaz Schubert 1785-1844, brother of Franz Peter Schubert (1797 1828) Austrian composer.
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GEORGE BOSS, AGED 86, 1880, USA, America, 19th century engraving
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Otto Theodor Freiherr von Manteuffel, 3 February 1805 - 26 November 1882, was a conservative Prussian politician, from 1850 to 1858 he was Prussian Prime Minister, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century.
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Nicéphore or Joseph Niépce, 1765 - 1833, French inventor of heliography
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Karl Wilhelm Meixner, also Carl Meixner (16 November 1815) (5 September 1888 in Vienna) was a German actor, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original
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Famous people in American history, Daniel Webster (born18 January 1782 in Salisbury) (Merrimack County) (New Hampshire) (died24 October 1852 in Marshfield) (Massachusetts) was a US politician, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century scrapbook picture
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Franz Abt (1819-1885) on engraving from 1908. German composer and choral conductor. Engraved by unknown artist and published in The world’s best music, famous songs. Volume 6", by The University Society, New York,1908.
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Portrait of Wenzel MULLER 1767-1835 Czech composer
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Sir John Franklin, born 1786, died 1847, a British rear admiral, polar explorer and lieutenant governor of Tasmania, Historical, digitally restored re...