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Engraved full-length portrait of George Washington standing with a sword, beside a table of books and an ornate chair.

George Washington (Lansdowne type)

James Heath, 1800

Engraved oval portrait of Henry Clay seated in an ornate chair, wearing a dark coat and cravat.

Henry Clay

Samuel Sartain, 1860

Tom Loftin Johnson

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Black and white lithograph oval portrait of a bearded man with wavy hair in a dark coat and high patterned collar.

Ebenezer Knight

Charles Fenderich, 1850

Framed line-drawn portrait of an older bald man in a waistcoat, with ornate border, signature and gallery caption.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - John Quincy Adams

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Engraved portrait of a bespectacled man with a mustache in a dark suit, with handwritten dedication and signature below.

Henry Wolf Self-Portrait

Henry L. Wolf, 1900

Lithographic oval portrait of a bearded officer in dark military uniform with a sword, captioned Gen. Stonewall Jackson.

Stonewall Jackson

F. P. Whiting, 1861

Lithograph portrait of Henry Clay in a dark coat and bow tie, turned three-quarters to the left against a pale background.

Henry Clay

Albert Newsam, 1840

Wood engraving of James Fisk Jr., a man with a mustache in a dark coat, printed on a Harper's Weekly newspaper page.

James Fisk

Mathew B. Brady, 1860

Engraved oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln in a decorative border with allegorical Union and Peace emblems.

Abraham Lincoln

Buttre & Momberger, 1860

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Tanner, 1790

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a military uniform with embroidered collar and epaulettes, captioned Gen. Magruder.

John Bankhead Magruder

Dominique C. Fabronius, 1861

Colored caricature of Senator William Andrews Clark with red hair and beard, black cloak and top hat, with a coat of arms at

William Andrews Clark

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Political cartoon of a man fishing from rocks for a human-faced fish holding a resignation paper, with a diplomacy bag beside

Hard Fish to Catch

Thomas Nast, 1861

Lithographic portrait of Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky, a man with curly hair in a dark coat and cravat.

Richard Mentor Johnson

Albert Newsam, 1830

Lithograph portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit resting one hand on a stack of books.

Abraham Lincoln

Mathew B. Brady, 1860

Colored caricature of a bearded man in a dark frock coat holding a top hat, by Thomas Nast, 1870.

Consequential Damages

Thomas Nast, 1870

Zachary Taylor

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1840

Lithograph of a standing man in a black suit beside a draped table, with marble columns and an American flag behind him.

James K. Polk

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1840

Oval stipple engraving of John Adams in a dark coat and cravat, with powdered hair, on a cream sheet.

John Adams

Henry H. Houston, 1790

Black and white lithograph portrait of a man with sidewhiskers and dark formal coat, labeled D. D. Barnard.

Daniel Dewey Barnard

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Mezzotint portrait of an elderly bald man in a dark coat and white cravat, with a watch chain, against a shadowed background.

Thomas Addis Emmet

John Rubens Smith, 1830

Hand-colored print of a man with wavy hair in an oval frame topped by an eagle with a shield reading Education.

George Washington Dixon

? - James C. Platt, 1840

Engraved bust portrait of a mustached man in a dark jacket and bow tie, within a red double-line border.

Raphael Semmes

Raphael Semmes, 1861

Engraved oval portrait of Commodore Thomas MacDonough in a dark naval uniform with gold epaulettes, framed by an oak leaf wre

Thomas MacDonough

Thomas Gimbrede, 1810

Hand-colored lithographic portrait of a seated man in a brown coat and white cravat beside a green cushioned chair.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams, 1830

Soft-toned print portrait of an elderly bearded man with a bald head, gazing directly at the viewer.

Chester Harding

Chester Harding

Lithograph of an encampment with a tiled-roof wooden pavilion, a flag, robed figures, and stone lanterns among trees.

Encampment of the Exploring Party in Lew Chew

Peter Bernard William Heine, 1850

Zachary Taylor

Edward Williams Clay, 1840

Engraved print of a man in military uniform in an oval laurel wreath, with an eagle, flags, and the word Libertas above.

George Washington

Robert Field, 1790