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Engraved portrait of a bishop in dark robes and white vestments holding a book, with clouds and trees behind him.

Samuel Seabury

William Sharp, 1780

Engraving of a standing officer pointing toward a battle, with a white horse and attendant beside him under a pine tree.

Marquis De Lafayette

Noël Le Mire, 1780

Caricature drawing of a stout man in a plumed hat holding a pistol and whip before a church steeple and flags.

Bombastes Reformeth Ye Churches

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Hand-colored print of a man in a top hat and red shirt, with firemen operating a hose engine on a smoky city street behind hi

F. S. Chanfrau in the Character of Mose

James Brown, 1840

Engraving of a man on a prancing black horse reviewing mounted soldiers, with a flag and crowd behind him.

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce, 1850

Lithographic portrait of a seated man holding a bugle, with open sheet music, an inkwell and a quill on a table beside him.

Francis Johnson

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1840

Lithograph portrait of a uniformed officer with sword and horse, with a battle scene with smoke and a flag behind him.

Irvin McDowell

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of a dark crow with a human face standing on rocky ground beside tall grass.

Thomas Dartmouth Rice

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Engraved portrait of George Washington seated with a map labeled City of Washington and a tricorn hat on a table beside him.

George Washington

John Scoles, 1790

Hand-colored ballad sheet with an officer in blue uniform beside a horse, framed by a laurel wreath, above printed song verse

George Brinton McClellan

Charles Magnus, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of a standing man in a long coat holding a top hat and cane on a grassy hill.

Marquis De Lafayette

Nathaniel Currier, 1830

Oval portrait of Donald McKay in dark coat and cravat, with a sailing ship at sea and a harbor behind him.

Donald McKay

Leopold Grozelier, 1850

Engraved allegory with a bust portrait of Lafayette in uniform, surrounded by classical figures, a cannon, and a drum marked

Marquis de Lafayette

Lagardette, 1800

Sheet music cover with oval lithograph portrait of Abraham Lincoln against draped curtains, titled Inauguration Grand March.

Inauguration Grand March

Christopher S. German, 1860

Oval lithographic portrait of an older man with grey side whiskers, dark coat and white cravat, against a soft landscape.

John James Audubon

Francis d' Avignon, 1850

Engraved full-length portrait of a man in a greatcoat holding a top hat and cane before a rocky landscape.

Marquis De Lafayette

Jean Marie Leroux, 1820

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a military coat with epaulettes, under a tree, within an ornate decorative frame.

George Washington

Justus Chevillet, 1770

Engraved caricature of a seated officer in cape and uniform beside a sword, captioned 'The Modern Belisarius', in a landscape

George Brinton McClellan

George Brinton McClellan, 1860

Engraved portrait of George Washington in a tricorn hat holding a spyglass beside a cannon, with tents in the background.

George Washington

Mezzotint portrait of a uniformed naval man raising his hat on a ship deck, with a decanter and glass beside him.

William IV

William Say, 1830

Miss Winnie Davis

Varina Anne Jefferson Davis, 1880

Lithographed sheet music cover of a man with a bundle on a stick beside a tree, with a river and riders in the distance.

Frederick Douglass

Henry Prentiss, 1840

Hand-colored engraved portrait of a uniformed officer in dark blue with a sword, a white horse behind him, against a dark bac

Major General Andrew Jackson

James Barton Longacre, 1820

Engraved advertisement of J. Gurney's daguerreotype gallery at 349 Broadway, with a carriage and pedestrians in the street.

J. Gurney's Premium Daguerreotype Gallery, 349 Broadway, New York

John William Orr, 1850

Sepia mezzotint portrait of a man holding a spear, with a white cloth draped over his shoulder and a hilly landscape behind h

Cinqué

John Sartain, 1830

Poster of a man in an ornate embroidered robe before blue pagodas and hills, with gold text reading Long Tack Sam.

Long Tack Sam

Adolph Friedländer, 1910

Lithograph sheet music cover of a boy standing beside a draped table, eyes closed, holding a hat, with title lettering above.

Thomas Bethune

Major & Knapp Sarony, 1860

Engraved family portrait of a bearded officer, a seated woman, and four children and young adults in a wooded outdoor setting

General Grant and His Family

John Sartain, 1861

Mezzotint portrait of a man in a wig and armour holding a baton, with a helmet, fortress and horsemen behind him.

James Edward Oglethorpe

Engraved portrait of a standing man with a musket and fur cloak, with seated figures and a mountain behind him.

Philip, King of Mount Hope

Paul Revere, 1710