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Caricature ink drawing of a bald, mustached man in a checked suit, captioned 'Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!'

Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich

Carlo de Fornaro, 1910

Hand-colored print of a standing Seminole man with feathered headdress, green tunic and red leggings, holding a rifle.

Asseola - A Seminole Leader

H. D, 1840

Me-te-a - A Pottawatomie Chief

R. T, 1830

Engraved portrait of seated Fisher Ames in dark coat and white cravat, holding a rolled paper, on a printed book page.

Fisher Ames

John Boyd, 1810

Magazine page with engraved portraits of two men, an illustration of an old church, and printed text columns.

The Brothers Meade, Daguerreotypists, New York

Henry William Mathew Meade, 1850

Etching of a woman in a long dark dress viewed from behind, looking at framed paintings in a gallery interior.

Mary Cassatt au Louvre

Edgar Degas, 1920

Hand-colored print of a man with face paint, holding feathered arrows and wearing a striped shirt and beaded sash.

Mistippee

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1830

Oval engraved portrait of a man in a military coat with powdered hair, framed by a patterned border.

John Sullivan

Robert Pollard, 1770

Oval engraved portrait of General Grant and family on a colonnaded terrace, with a domed building behind them.

General Grant and Family

Adam B. Walter, 1861

Saint-Mémin folio 1

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1780

Engraved oval portrait of King George III in ermine robe, framed by a crown and laurel swags, 1770.

King George III

Robert Pollard, 1770

Engraved oval portrait of a man in military coat, with an eagle holding an American flag above and caption text below.

James Henry Lane

James Henry Lane, 1850

Engraved portrait of a white-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat, labeled P.S. Physick M.D. P.S.

Philip Syng Physick

Bass Otis, 1810

Hand-colored print of Naw-kaw, a Winnebago chief, in feathered headdress, holding a ceremonial pipe and wearing silver medals

Naw-kaw

Henry Inman, 1830

Engraved portrait of Major General George E. Pickett on a Southern Illustrated News newspaper page, 1864.

George Pickett

Mathew B. Brady, 1861

Hand-colored print of a man in a red turban and blue robe, with a silver medal on a cord, captioned Se-loc-ta, a Creek Chief.

Se-loc-ta - A Creek Chief

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1830

Hand-colored print portrait of Little-Crow, a Sioux chief, in a fur robe and green neckerchief against a cream background.

Little-Crow

Henry Inman, 1830

Seated woman in a lace veil and shawl, rendered in a black-and-white lithograph portrait from 1850.

Madame Eliza Jumel

Alexandre Collette, 1850

Engraved oval portrait of a man in uniform beneath an eagle holding an American flag, captioned Captain Wilkes.

Charles Wilkes

Charles Wilkes, 1850

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat and fur-trimmed robe, with Latin text around the frame.

John Foxe

Martin Droeshout, 1630

Lithographic portrait of a man in a dark military uniform with epaulettes, captioned The General Jackson.

Andrew Jackson

Jules Lion, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of a Pawnee chief with red feathered headdress, beaded necklaces, and fur-trimmed robe.

Shar-i-tar-ish - A Pawnee Chief

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1840

Reuben Lindsay

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Oval stipple engraving portrait of John Jay in dark coat and white cravat, captioned below on a book page.

John Jay

Peter Maverick, 1800

Oval colour portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie against a brown background.

Abraham Lincoln

Elijah C. Middleton, 1860

Anthony Wayne

Benjamin Tanner, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of General Henry Warner Slocum in uniform, with an eagle and American flag above.

Henry Warner Slocum

Henry Warner Slocum, 1861

Engraved oval portrait of Col. E. E. Ellsworth in military uniform and kepi, with an eagle and flag above.

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, 1850

James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

Carlo de Fornaro, 1910

Etched half-length portrait of a bespectacled man with a mustache and wavy dark hair, head tilted downward.

Bernhard Gutmann Self-Portrait

Bernhard Gutmann, 1930