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Tecumseh

William Bartram, 1810

Lithograph portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat and bow tie, signed George Peabody.

George Peabody

Dominique C. Fabronius, 1860

Lithograph portrait of Rev. Daniel Filmore in a dark coat and white cravat, set within a shaded oval vignette.

Daniel Filmore

Daniel Filmore, 1820

Black and white lithographic portrait of Henry Clay in an oval frame with an oak leaf wreath border.

Henry Clay

Francis d' Avignon, 1840

James Madison

John Vanderlyn, 1800

Lithograph portrait of General William Henry Harrison in embroidered uniform, between columns, with banner and log cabin vign

William Henry Harrison

Ephraim Bouve, 1830

Lithographic bust portrait of a bearded man in a double-breasted coat, with script name below.

Elisha Kent Kane

acitve C. Kuhn, 1850

Engraved print of Abraham Lincoln in an oval medallion beside a classical figure holding a lantern, with the Capitol behind.

Abraham Lincoln

Henry Bryan Hall and Sons, 1860

Engraved portrait of a uniformed man in a laurel wreath with a ribbon reading "We have met the enemy and they are ours."

Oliver Hazard Perry

George Delleker, 1800

Engraved portrait of Mrs Mowatt with curled hair in an ornate decorative border with an eagle at top.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Anna Mowatt

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Grey lithograph portrait of a balding man with curly side hair, dark coat and white cravat, facing the viewer.

Martin Van Buren

Henry Inman, 1820

Stippled engraved portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, a man in a dark turban and fur-trimmed coat, on a pale printed sheet.

Nathaniel Hurd

John Singleton Copley, 1830

Engraved portrait of seated Washington Irving in dark coat and cravat, with books and inkwell beside him, signed below.

Washington Irving

John Sartain, 1850

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jacques Reich, 1890

Lithograph portrait of a balding man in a dark coat and white cravat, labeled Nathaniel Coffin M.D.

Nathaniel Coffin

Rembrandt Peale, 1820

Engraved caricature of two men on toy hobby horses on a cart labeled Third Term, with the NY Tribune building behind.

The Hobby in the Kinder-Garten

Thomas Nast, 1870

Political caricature of a lion with a man's head labeled Democrat, rats swarming a wall, Harper's Weekly masthead above.

Tail Praising its Head

Thomas Nast, 1861

Lithograph bust portrait of a man in a dark naval uniform with gold buttons and shoulder boards, captioned Rear Admiral Geo.

Admiral George Dewey

George Dewey, 1900

Timothy Pickering

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Mähsette-Kuiuab

Pierre Joseph Tavernier, 1830

Oval engraved portrait of a man with powdered hair and a dark buttoned coat, labeled William Winterbotham.

William Winterbotham

John Scoles, 1790

Caricature of a giant man holding a tiny soldier, with slogan panels and a text column on a Harper's Weekly page.

He Will Be Gulliver in the Hands of the Brobdingnagians

Thomas Nast, 1861

Caricature of a standing man in black suit with white hair, cigar and pince-nez, with a balance-scale coat of arms at upper r

Nathaniel K. Fairbank

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Colour magazine cover of Uncle Sam wearing a crown of thorns made of vines with caricatured heads labelled with political woe

Falstaff (Bryan) Reviews His Ragged Army

Grant E. Hamilton, 1890

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a double-breasted military uniform with embroidered collar, captioned N. B. Forrest.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

J. L. Giles, 1861

Hand-colored oval portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, titled Abraham Lincoln, c. 1860.

Abraham Lincoln

C. Bornemann, 1860

William Henry Drayton

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1780

Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Lithographic portrait of an older man with white hair and cravat, signed Henry Rutgers below the bust.

Henry Rutgers

Charles G. Crehen, 1860

Benjamin West

Jonathan Spilsbury, 1770