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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Colored lithograph of a fish with a caricatured man's head wearing spectacles and holding a money bag, with a ship on water.

Francis Martin Drexel

Max Rosenthal, 1850

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

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of Major General John A. Logan in a blue uniform with gold buttons and star shoulder straps.

John Alexander Logan

John Alexander Logan, 1861

Lithographic bust portrait of a man with wavy hair in a dark coat and cravat, signed by Charles Fenderich.

Richard Montgomery Young

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Engraved print of a uniformed officer standing beside a grey horse in a forested landscape, sword at his side.

George Brinton McClellan

Chapin & Stephens, 1860

Caricature of two men, one in a brown robe with halo and wings holding kerosene oil and a penny, one in a dark suit.

John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Albert Levering, 1900

Lithographic bust portrait of a man with tousled hair in a dark coat and white cravat, labeled Lafayette.

Marquis De Lafayette

Nicolas Maurin, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of a seated man in a grey coat holding an open book, with red curtain and green drapery behi

Martin Van Buren

Daniel Wright Kellogg, 1830