Historical Profile Portraits

Engravings of notable historical figures presented in profile, displaying classical clothing and hairstyles, emphasizing their significance and identity.

Portrait of Emperor Augustus in round frame, Marcantonio Raimondi, 1510 - 1527 print Italy paper engraving emperor

Glossy.

Junius Brutus.

Hieron I, Tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, who sided with the Cumaeans in their battle against the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae 474 BC Hiero. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoors Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.

Jean de La Fontaine. Dated: 1801. Dimensions: plate: 17.2 x 11.3 cm (6 3/4 x 4 7/16 in.) sheet: 19.7 x 13.3 cm (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.). Medium: engraving over etching on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Augustin de Saint-Aubin.

Copy Van SATER, GILLES DEARTEA, AFTER Franw Bives, 1732 - 1776 print Paris paper etching satyr(s) (in general)

Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century originalSalonina Matidia, 64, 119, also called Matidia the Elder, was the only child of the wealthy praetor Gaius Saloninus Matidius Patruinus and Ulpia Marciana. She was the favourite niece of her maternal uncle, the Roman Emperor Trajan, mother-in-law of his successor Hadrian and great-grandmother of Marc Aure, digital reproduction of an original 19th century master copy

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, 1689 - 1755, aka Montesquieu. French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher.

Imago, Philippi, De, Stosch, Lib, Baronis, Rerum, Antiquarum, Studiosi, Bust of the Philipp Baron von Stosch, German art dealer and antiquity collector, Georg Martin Preissler -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Justin Preissler -, artist

Medallion creator Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Iole, wearing the Nemean lionskin, with her lover Hercules, Greek hero. Copperplate engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi from 108 Plates of Antique Gems, 1860. The gems were from the Duke of Marlborough's collection.

Tiberius, Roman Emperor.

Meldolla, Andrea.

Chilon of Sparta.

Asclepiades from Bithynia.

Study of a children's head; Studies of human heads. Study of a children's head with curls, three-quarters to the left.

Medallion creator Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Portret Van Voetballler Lucide Gentiloni, Giuseppe Mochetti, After Francesco Giangiacomo, Before 1909 print Italy paper engraving historical persons. soccer, football (early names: soule, choule, cholle) (+ sportsman, player, etc.)

Bustes from Hercules and a Sater; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II. Two busts. Above the bust of Hercules with beard and bottom of a Sater. On both busts the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print from a publication with reproduction prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.

Moses Michelangelo Buonarotti (figure from the tomb of Pope Julius II, in the Roman church of San Pietro in Vincoli, from 1515 (tomb from 1545). Unknown, Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475 1564)

Bust of a man, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Europe cardboard. photographic support albumen print chest, bust Europe

Medallion creator Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Domitius Abenobarbus, Marcus.

Medallion creator Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Etching by Domenico Cunego showing the head of an unidentified philosopher in the School of Athens, created in 1785, illustrating Renaissance depiction of classical thinkers.

The Scott Centenary, Sir Walter Scott, From the Bust by Chantrey, For the hundredth birthday of Sir Walter Scott, Portrait after a bust of Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey from The Illustrated London News , Unknown

Print from Drawing Book. Dated: c. 1610/1620. Medium: engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Luca Ciamberlano.

Bust of bearded Hercules with laurel wreath. In nicolo. Hercole laureato. In nich'lo. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

Manzoni, Alessandro .

Bias .

Demosthenes, Philippos, Alexandros, Diogenes , Personalities of ancient Greece, Demosthenes, Philippos, Alexandros, Diogenes, Unknown

Antonia Minor. James Anderson (British, 1813 - 1877)

Sculpture of the head of Laocoön, FS & Co., after Anonymous, 1870 - 1890 cabinet photograph Berlin paper. cardboard albumen print piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. Laocoon and his twin sons are strangled by two serpents during the preparations for a sacrifice

Penning with bust of Louis XIV, Gerard Edelinck, after Antoine Coypel, 1702 print Front of a medal with bust and profil from Louis XIV. paper engraving

Maecenas, Gaius Cilnius.

Demosthenes .

RETRATO DE MARCO ANTONIO-83/30 A.C- GRABADO NEOCLASICO SEGUN MEDALLA-ALBUM ANTICUARIO. Author: GULLAUME VALLET (1632-1704) GRABADOR. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Marcellus Marcus.

Savioli Fontana Castelli, Ludovico.

Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships. Depicted with an ear of wheat in her hair. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoors Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.

Titus (Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus (40 or 41-81 A.D.) 17th-18th century Italian. Titus (Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus (40 or 41-81 A.D.) 198345

A black and reddish chalk drawing with brown brush depicting a head copied from the Trajan Column, showing facial features and contour.

Medallion creator Pierre Jean David d'Angers

Antique Bearded Head. Dimensions: overall: 20.1 x 15.2 cm (7 15/16 x 6 in.). Medium: brush and gray ink with gray wash. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JOHN FLAXMAN.

Aspasia, c. 470 BC, c. 420 BC, a Greek philosopher, orator and the second woman of Pericles, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Hiero I, or Hieron I, tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, 478 to 467 BC. Son of Deinomenes, and brother of Gelon. He sided with the Cumaeans in their battle against the Etruscans at the Battle of Cumae 474 BC. Head of a man wearing royal diadem from a bronze medal. Hierone. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.

Alphonse Legros, Head, 1879 Head

Twelve heads, marked A-M., Jan Luyken, Willem Goeree, 1682

Bust of Emperor Claudius, Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. Claudio. In cameo of celestial blue on sardonyx base. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

BUST OF THE LATE MR. GEORGE STEPHENSON, 1858

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor.

Van Flavia envelopes, Hubert thatinus, 1646 - 1670 print Classic bust of an older woman in a tunic. The print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection of Gerard Reynst. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. female persons from classical history

Title print with five heads and astronomical signs, Claude Mellan, 1620 print paper engraving astrological signs and symbols. face

Overview of two plaster bikes of sculptures from the cathedral of Reims, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph On the left a sculpture, representing a veiled woman, on the right a sculpture, representing a man with a hat. Trocadéro Palace cardboard. photographic support albumen print permanent exhibition, museum. sculpture. adult woman. adult man Trocadéro Palace

A face expressing hatred or jealousy. Crayon manner print by W. Hebert, c. 1770, after C. Le Brun.

Heads of two young women, Wencslaus Hollar, After Leonardo da Vinci, 1645 print Antwerp paper etching caricatures (human types). head (human)

AFGETETSELS Van Bustes Van Claude de France in Charlotte de France, Séraphin -Médéric Miefully, 1850 - 1900 photograph The Hague photographic support. cardboard albumen print piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Brazzle.

Servius Tullius, Priskus, Tarquin, Bruttus, Altrömische Kônige und Herrscher, Servius, Lucius Tarquinius Prisons, Lucius Tarquinius Proud, Lucius Junius Brutus, Unknown

In honor of Prince Emmanuel Bibesco 19th century Medalist: Jules-Clément Chaplain French. In honor of Prince Emmanuel Bibesco. Medalist: Jules-Clément Chaplain (French, Mortagne, Orne 1839-1909 Paris). French. 19th century. Bronze. Medals and Plaquettes

Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius Unbancrinetician Department: 1650/1700

Wedgewood medallion of Isaac Newton on blue Jaspar Ware. Isaac Newton (1643-1727) an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian and physicist. Dated 18th century

Vitellius, Aulas.

Scipio Africanus The Elder (235-183 BC). Roman general and statesman. Etching.

Reason Speaks and Pleasure is Won Over. Roger, Barthélemy Joseph Fulcran (France, Lodève, 1767-1841). France, c. 1796-1799. Prints; engravings. Etching and stipple engraving

Thomas Jefferson in 1815-1816 portrait by British American artist William Thornton. Thornton was a British-American physician, inventor, painter, and architect (BSLOC_2019_6_148)

Mans head of plaster Probably from the 1850s

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) or Abbe Sieyes. French clergyman and political writer. Engraving, 19th cent.

Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven. Joseph Kriehuber (German, 1800-1876). Lithograph;

A POSTUMIUS ALBINUS BRUTUS Roman statesman and historian Date: circa 150 BC

Achilles, Son of Peleus and the Nereid Thetis, bravest of all the Greek warriors at Troy, and central character of Homer's Iliad. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoors Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.

King Amyntas I of Macedon wearing a lionskin like the Greek hero Heracles. A vassal of Darius I from 511 BC until his death in 497 BC. On the verso of a bronze coin depicting Alexander the Great. Aminta Re de Macedoni. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.

Perseus, king of Macedonia.

Double portrait of empress Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great; Isagogia Historia De Constantino Max: Imperatore Instatuta Militie Angelicae Aureatae Constantinianae Sub Titulo Magni Martyris S Georgii; History of the Order of the Holy Joris. Two oval lists with a portrait of Empress Helena in the left, the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, older age and in the judge a portrait of the empress at a younger age. Under the portraits text in Latin.

Madagascar, from the Races of Mankind series (T181) issued by Abdul Cigarettes 1881 Issued by Abdul Cigarettes Trade cards from the "Races of Mankind" series (T181), issued in 1881 to promote Abdul Cigarettes.. Madagascar, from the Races of Mankind series (T181) issued by Abdul Cigarettes. 1881. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Abdul Cigarettes (American)

Bust of Drusus Julius Caesar, or Nero Claudius Drusus, 14 BC - 23 AD. Son of Emperor Tiberius, heir to the Roman Empire following the death of his adoptive brother Germanicus. Neron Claudio Druso. In cameo. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

Petrarca, Francesco.

Theophrastus .

The portrait of Aesculapius en profil Reproduction of a Greek carved gemstone Bottom right the true size of the stone Numbered in the top center: XVIII Print is from a book on carved gemstones and glyptics, Carved stone with the image of Aesculapius, print maker: Bernard Picart, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1722, paper, etching, engraving, h 270 mm × w 187 mm

Bust of Numa Pompilius, c. 753672 BC, legendary second king of Rome, succeeding Romulus. Seen on silver coins. In carnelian. Numa Pompilio. In corniola. Copperplate engraving by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi after Leonardo Agostini from Gemmae et Sculpturae Antiquae Depicti ab Leonardo Augustino Senesi, Abraham Blooteling, Amsterdam, 1685.

The Maistre, Antoine.

Indigenous people of the Ouroua, Central Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Journey from Zanzibar to Benguela by Verney Lovett Cameron, Le Tour du Monde 1877

Socrates.

Domitia Calvilla, 1546. Hans Sebald Beham (German, 1500-1550). Engraving;

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