Prominent Political Figures

Illustrations of significant political leaders from the 19th century. High contrast black and white images emphasize facial expressions and historical context.

Pius IX (1792-1878). Italian pope, named Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. Elected in 1846. Convened the First Vatican Council (1869-70). Engraving.

Portrait of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine; Black and White Illustration

James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States (1857-1861), served immediately prior to the American Civil War. He remains the only President to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor.

Pius IX (1792-1878). Italian pope, named Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. Elected in 1846. Convened the First Vatican Council (1869-70). Engraving.

HAUSSMANN, GEORGES EUGENE. POLITICO FRANCES. 1809-1891. GRABADO.

Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, (1802-1880), Lord Chief Justice. Artist: Unknown

Louis-Léon Rostan. Lithograph by Z. Belliard.

THE LATE ALDERMAN SIR F.G. MOON, 1871

Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas. Lithograph by J.B.A. Lafosse after P. Petit.

Jonkheer F.A. Knight of Rappard. / Born in Utrecht 24 April 1793, died there 19 February 1867.

Portrait of Edouard Charton (1807 - 1890) was an eminent French literary figure who was the founder of the publication Le Magasin pittoresque

HENRY MEIGGS American businessman and railway engineer; builder of railways in Chile and Peru. Date: 1811 - 1877

Andres Bello (1781Ð1865) Venezuelan humanist, poet, philosopher. Engraving, 1881.

Immermann, Karl Leberecht .

Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Line engraving by A. Krausse, 1850.

Hahn, Heinrich Willhelm d.J. .

Louis Jules Béhier. Lithograph by J.B.A. Lafosse, 1868, after A.-R. Trinquart.

Portrait of Juan Martín Carramolino (Velayos 1805 - Madrid 1881). Spanish politician and jurist. Supreme Court of Spain. Royal Academy of Moral and Po

Photographic portrait of Carl Axel Trolle (1810-1879) a Swedish country house holder and member of parliament. Dated 19th Century

Thackeray, William Makepeace .

Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last President not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.

Mitscherlich, Eilhard .

Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). French statesman and historian. President of the Third Republic from 1871 to 1873. Thiers negotiated peace with Prussia and defeated the Paris Commune, insurrectionary movement in 1871. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra Franco-Alemana de 1870-1871". Published in Barcelona, 1891.

Brigham Young (1801-1877) - Leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and American settler. President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) from 1847 until 1877. The founder of Salt Lake City, and the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States. Date: circa 1860

Georg Gottlob Richter. Line engraving by G. D. Heumann after himself.

Michael Andrew Angus Costa (1808-1884), Italian-born conductor and composer. Settled in England in 1830, naturalised and knighted in 1869. Principal conductor at Covent Garden and of the Philharmonic Society. From The Modern Portrait Gallery (London, c1880).

John Bright. 1861 - 1880. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. New York (State) , History, Bright, John, 1811-1889

Schwab, Gustav.

DAVID ROBERTSON (LORD MARJORIBANKS) M.P. FOR BERWICKSHIRE UK, ENGRAVING 1873

Sir Rowland Hill, 1795 - 1879. English teacher, inventor and social reformer. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England.

Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) geologist

William Thomas Brande. Lithograph by T. Bridgford.

Sommaruga, Franz Freiherr.

Eugène Rouher (1814-1884). French statesman of the Second Empire (1852-1870). Portrait. Drawing by Badillo. Engraving by Arturo Carretero (1852-1903). La Ilustración Española y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), February 22, 1884. Author: Arturo Carretero (ca. 1852-1903). Spanish engraver and xylograph. Félix Badillo (1848-1895). Spanish illustrator.

Jose Mun_oz Maldonado (1807-1875). First count of Fabraquer from 1847 and viscount of San Javier, journalist, novelist, historian, jurist and Spanish politician. Portrait. Engraving by Badillo. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1876.

Portrait of Sainte-Beuve Portrait of Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), French writer and literary critic. Print of Bornemann according to Pierson. Paris, museum of romantic life.

Edvard Mortling (1809-1875); Edvard Lehmann (1815-1892), Johannes Irgens, 1809 - 1875

Kanne, Friedrich August.

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. Wood engraving after T.D. Scott, 1871, after Wilson & Beadell.

The Hon. William F. Havemeyer. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. New York (State) , History

Ernest Picard (Louis Joseph Ernest Picard) (1821-1877). French politician. Portrait. Engraving, 1870.

Jose Manjarres y de Bofarull (1816-1880). Spanish lawyer and archaeologist. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1880.

Celakovsky, Frantisek .

Friedrich Daniel Bassermann (1811-1855). German businessman and Liberal politician. Engraving.

Z. C. Pearson; Esq.; Mayor of Hull.

Mr. H. Ameshoff. President of the management of the former Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij.

Hittorff, Ignace Jaques.

Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807-1874). French politician. Engraving in History of France, 1883.

Sir James Ranald Martin. Lithograph, 1874.

Eduard Friedrich Mörike, 8 September 1804, 4 June 1875, was a German poet of the Swabian School, storyteller and translator, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown

Robert Bentley Todd. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1848.

Z. C. Pearson; Esq.; Mayor of Hull.

Sir George Arthur, (1784 - 1854) Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras from 1814 to 1822, Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania) from 1823 to 1837. The malicious campaign against Aboriginal Tasmanians, known as the Black War, occurred during this term of office. He later served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1838 to 1841, and Governor of Bombay from 1842 to 1846.

Daniel O'Connell byname The Liberator 1775 to 1847. First of the great 19th century Irish leaders in the British House of Commons. From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.

Eugeniusz Słubicki Styfi, Jan (1841 1921)

Zschokke, Heinrich .

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, Lord Cranbrook, 1814 - 1906, a British politician

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). British Liberal statesman. Portrait. Engraving.

Robert von Patow (1804-1890). Prussian politician. Portrait. Engraving, 1885.

Jos Valero Villavicencio (1808-1891). Spanish actor. Illustration by Badillo. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881.

Portrait of Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873) an American politician, jurist and Chief Justice of the United States. Dated 19th Century

MILLARD FILLMORE 13th American President (1850-53). Date: 1800 - 1874

Portrait of Joseph C. Yates, sixth governor of New York., 1880., New York. Engravings

Thomas Perronet Thompson, 1783 - 1869. British Parliamentarian, governor of Sierra Leone, radical reformer and leading activist in the Anti-Corn Law League. From Cassell's Illustrated History of E

William Blake, Charles H. Jeens, 1827-1879, after John Linnell, 1792-1882, British, 1827, Engraving

Edward Blore (1787-1879) British Architect. Architect to William IV, to Queen Victoria and to Westminster Abbey. He completed Nash's designs for Buckingham Palace, London, and contributed to the final designs for Abbotsford, the house his friend the novelist Sir Walter Scott built on the river Tweed near Galashiels, Scotland. Wood engraving 1879.

Salustiano de Olozaga y Almandoz (1805-1873). Spanish politician, diplomat and writer. He was Prime Minister of Spain and three times ambassador to France. Portrait. Engraving. Colored.

Portrait of Vicente de la Fuente y Bueno (Calatayud 1817 - Madrid 1889) 19th century researcher, canonist, jurisconsult and Spanish historian, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

Portrait of Richard Partridge (1805-1873) a British surgeon and President of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society. Dated 19th century

Duncker, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS U.S. President 1825 - 1829

Portrait of Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Ilustración Artística 1882

August Reichensperger, 1808, 1895, was a German lawyer and politician and patron of Cologne Cathedral, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, was a German lawyer and politician and patron of Cologne Cathedral, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Napoleon Henri Reber. French composer of symphonies and chamber works Date: 1807 - 1880

JOHN LOWE, M.D., OF LYNN REGIS, 1871

Heinrich Kruse, 1815, 1902, a German national journalist, poet and writer, ca. 1889, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, a German national journalist, poet and writer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Casimir Pierre Perier (1777-1832). French banker, mine owner, political leader and statesman. Portrait. Engraving. Colored.

George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, c1890. Portrait of George Campbell (1823-1900), Scottish Liberal politician and writer. From "The Modern Portrait Gallery". Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, Paris and New York, c1890

'The Earl of Coventry', 1879. Creator: Vincent Brooks Day & Son.

(Jean ) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz (1807-1873) Swiss-born American naturalist and glaciologist. From 'Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence' by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (Boston, 1885). Engraving.

Adolphe Thiers, (1797-1877) the statesman was a French politician and historian. He was a leading historian of the French Revolution, with a multivolume history that argued that the replicanism of the Revolution.

Scholz, Wenzel.

Adolphe Billault (1805-1863). French politician. Engraving of The Illustration, Journal Universel, 1870. Colored.

Pius VIII. A nineteenth century pope (1829-1830).

Grunert, Karl.

Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). French statesman and historian. President of the Third Republic from 1871 to 1873. Thiers negotiated peace with Prussia and defeated the Paris Commune, insurrectionary movement in 1871. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume I. Published in Barcelona, 1870.

Dantan, Jean Pierre.

Lord Mayo, the murdered vice king of India, Richard Southwell Bourke, Earl of Mayo, the murdered Viceroy of India from Leaves for the Domestic Circle , Unknown

Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 - January 4, 1877), nicknamed Commodore, was an American business magnate who made his wealth in the railroad and shipping sectors, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

'Chateaubriand', (1768- 1848), c1830. Creator: Francois-Seraphin Delpech.

Stephen Girard (1750-1831) born Étienne Girard, was a naturalized American philanthropist, banker, and slave owner of French origin. He saved the U.S. government from financial collapse during the War of 1812, and became one of the wealthiest people in America, estimated to have been the fourth richest American of all time. France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

CONDE DE CAVOUR (Camilo Benso) (1810-1861). Estadista italiano, uno de los artífices de la unificación italiana. Grabado S. XIX.

James A. Stewart.

Charles Lyell (1797-1875). British lawyer and geologist. Engraving by Maynhofer in Our Century, 1883. Colored.

Norvins, Jacques Marquet de Montbreton Baron de.

Portrait of Lewis Cass (1782-1866) an American military officer, politician, and statesman. Dated 19th Century

Historical print, engraving, 1849, portrait of Friedrich Adolf Krummacher, 1767-1845, German Protestant theologian, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur by Gustav Koennecke, picture atlas, 1887

Stephen Girard (1750-1831) born Étienne Girard, was a naturalized American philanthropist, banker, and slave owner of French origin. He saved the U.S. government from financial collapse during the War of 1812, and became one of the wealthiest people in America, estimated to have been the fourth richest American of all time. France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

DANIEL O'CONNELL Irish Nationalist leader in top hat. Date: 1775 - 1847

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, 1859. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Wood engraving;

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