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Engraved full-length portrait of James Madison standing beside a draped table with a globe, documents, and quill.

James Madison

David Edwin, 1810

Engraved portrait of an elderly bald man with a long white beard, in three-quarter view against a dark background.

William Morris Hunt

Gustav Kruell, 1880

Lithograph portrait of a man with curly hair, dark high-collared coat and folded arms, captioned James Fenimore Cooper.

James Fenimore Cooper

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1830

Engraved portrait of a seated clergyman in a dark coat and white bands, gesturing toward an open book on a lectern.

Samson Occom

Jonathan Spilsbury, 1760

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark suit and bow tie, head turned slightly left, with a printed signature below.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gerarde A. Klucken, 1880

Black-and-white lithograph portrait of Gov. John Endicott in dark robes and white collar, holding an ornate object.

John Endecott

Francis d' Avignon, 1840

Oval lithograph portrait of a uniformed officer with curled hair, epaulettes and high collar, captioned Gen'l Wool.

John Ellis Wool

Dominique C. Fabronius, 1861

Stipple engraving portrait of Stephen Decatur in a naval uniform with epaulette, within a dotted oval border.

Stephen Decatur

David Edwin, 1810

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and high white collar, turned to the right, with books at left.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

Albert Newsam, 1820

John Hancock

John Hancock, 1770

Political cartoon of a uniformed officer with a sword beside a doll, surrounded by captions on a Harper's Weekly page.

A Financial Mistake

Thomas Nast, 1861

Hand-colored caricature of a laughing bald man in a dark coat raising a gilded goblet marked MVB, with a caption below.

A Beautiful Goblet of White-House Champagne

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1840

Oval framed portrait of a man in a dark coat and bow tie, with ornate scrolled border and handwritten caption below.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Wood engraving of Robert Toombs in a dark suit with cravat, surrounded by columns of printed text from Harper's Weekly.

Robert Augustus Toombs

Mathew B. Brady, 1861

Lithograph bust portrait of a man with curly hair and white cravat, signed Samuel Dexter, dated 1820.

Samuel Dexter

Thomas Edwards, 1820

Charles Loring Elliott

George Kasson Knapp, 1870

Engraved caricature of a bearded man playing piano amid scattered political song sheets, with a monkey painting and dome outs

Played Out

Thomas Nast, 1861

Samuel Huntington

Burnet Reading, 1780

Engraved oval portrait of George Washington in military uniform above a scene of officers shaking hands at Yorktown.

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale, 1790

Engraved political cartoon of a man writing at a desk beside an easel caricature, with newspapers and a peacock feather aroun

We Are Not Proud

Thomas Nast, 1870

Lithograph bust portrait of a man in an ornate military uniform with epaulettes, sword, and draped curtain behind him.

William Henry Harrison

Rembrandt Peale, 1830

Engraved portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, resting his hand on an open book.

William Ellery Channing

William Hoogland, 1820

Etched portrait of a seated man in a dark suit leaning on a carved armchair, with a red label reading Field, Eugene.

Eugene Field

William Henry Warren Bicknell, 1900

Henry Clay

William Henry Brown, 1840

Engraved bust-length portrait of a balding man in a dark coat and white cravat, signed Jos. Hopkinson.

Joseph Hopkinson

John Sartain, 1830

Oval lithographic portrait of a mustached man in a dark coat, framed by an ornate border with an eagle and angels.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - William Watson, III

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Philip Armour

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and cravat, with the signature Eli Whitney beneath.

Eli Whitney

David C. Hinman, 1840

Lithograph portrait of a uniformed officer with epaulettes and sword, captioned General William H. Harrison, The Hero.

William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison, 1830

Lithographic oval portrait of a man in a double-breasted coat and cravat, with a handwritten inscription below.

Gerrit Smith

Leopold Grozelier, 1850