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Sepia lithograph bust portrait of James Buchanan in a dark coat and white cravat, facing right.

James Buchanan

Adam Weingartner, 1850

Engraved full-length portrait of William Henry Harrison standing by a table with a document, bust, and globe.

William Henry Harrison

John Sartain, 1840

Pen and ink caricature of a tall, thin man in cap and knickerbockers with a golf club, with a red and white coat of arms.

James Deering

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Sepia engraved portrait of an older man with long wavy hair and white cravat, turned slightly to the right.

Reverend William White

John Sartain, 1830

Lithograph portrait of Henry Clay in a dark coat and cravat, framed by an ornate scrolled border with an eagle crest.

Henry Clay

M. Schmitz, 1840

Lithograph portrait of Albert Newsam, a man with swept-back dark hair and side whiskers, wearing a cravat and dark coat.

Albert Newsam

James Queen, 1860

Engraved newspaper page with portraits of Mr. Mason and Mr. Slidell and Captain Wilks, under an Illustrated London News masth

James Murray Mason and John Slidell

James Murray Mason, 1860

Grey lithograph bust portrait of a man with curly hair, high collar and cravat, captioned John D. Godman, M.D., 1830.

John Davidson Godman

Cephas Grier Childs, 1830

Grayscale lithographic portrait of John Brooks M.D. in a dark military coat with epaulettes and a high white collar.

John Brooks

Rembrandt Peale, 1820

Caricature of a seated man as a copper statue on a pedestal labeled The Alchemist, with gold, oil and wind containers beside

Henry Huttleston Rogers

Albert Levering, 1900

Lithographic portrait of William Matthews, rector of St. Patrick's Church, in clerical dress with a lace collar and cross-pat

William Matthews

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Benjamin West

Burnet Reading, 1790

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