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John Dickinson

B. B. Ellis, 1780

William Maxwell Evarts

Root & Tinker, 1880

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin seated with a quill pen and manuscript, with a lightning storm scene behind him.

Benjamin Franklin

Edward Fisher, 1760

Sepia lithographic oval portrait of a man with swept-back hair, dark coat and bow tie, captioned Andrew Johnson.

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson, 1860

Mezzotint portrait of Samuel Adams in period dress beside a column, with rolled documents and a verse caption below.

Samuel Adams

J. Percy Sabin, 1900

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of Major Ridge, a man with white curly hair in a dark blue coat and tan waistcoat.

Major Ridge

Alfred M. Hoffy, 1830

John Quincy Adams

William Henry Brown, 1840

Engraved portrait of Rembrandt Peale with spectacles and white hair, on a Ballou's Pictorial newspaper page with a harbor mas

Rembrandt Peale

flourished William J. Pierce, 1850

Lithograph portrait of Andrew Jackson in a dark coat and white cravat, with swept-up grey hair, against a pale background.

Andrew Jackson

William James Hubard, 1820

Henry Alexander Wise

Charles Fenderich, 1861

Lithograph portrait of Samuel Prentiss, a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with a printed quotation below.

Samuel Prentiss

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Black and white lithograph portrait of a man with curly hair, goatee, and dark cravat, signed Edwin Forrest.

Edwin Forrest

Edwin Forrest, 1860

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of Black Hawk, a Sac chief, in a blue coat with red collar and gold buttons.

Black Hawk

John Cameron, 1830

Lithograph portrait of Osceola of Florida standing with a rifle, wearing a feathered headdress, ornamented coat and beaded le

Osceola

George Catlin, 1890

Sheet music cover with oval portrait of a bearded officer in military uniform, framed by an ornate decorative border.

Burnside's Victory March

Mathew B. Brady, 1861

Sepia engraved portrait of a bald man in a dark jacket and striped cravat, with handwritten verse below.

Eugene Field

Jr Henry Taylor, 1890

Oval engraved portrait of a man in a powdered wig and embroidered coat, captioned John Hancock Esqr.

John Hancock

John Singleton Copley, 1770

Charcoal sketch of a seated shirtless man leaning on one arm, inside a circular border, by John Singer Sargent.

Thomas Eugene McKeller

John Singer Sargent, 1920

Engraved print of a seated man in a patterned robe painting at an easel, holding a brush and palette.

Washington Allston

David Claypoole Johnston, Mar 1799 - 8 Nov, 1840

Engraved portrait of an older man in a bow tie inside an ornate eagle-topped border, with signature and caption below.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Samuel Houston

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Engraved oval portrait of a bearded man with wavy hair in a dark coat and bow tie, captioned Edgar A. Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe

John Sartain, 1840

Lithograph portrait of a standing man in a frock coat with his hand on books beside a Louisville Journal newspaper.

George Dennison Prentice

George Dennison Prentice, 1860

Lithograph of seven oval portraits of uniformed officers arranged around a central figure, titled The Offering of the Carrier

The Offering of the Carriers of the Press to their Patrons

Charles Wilkes, 1861

Engraved-style portrait of a bearded man in an oval frame with an eagle, flags, and the Capitol, made of fine text lines.

Benjamin Harrison

Morris Diamond, 1890

Hand-colored lithograph of a bearded man's head framed within a pink starfish with knobbed arms.

Edwin Forrest

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Embossed white relief portrait of Henry Clay standing before a harbor scene with a ship, within an ornate green scrollwork bo

Henry Clay

John McPherson, 1840

Hand-colored lithograph of a man's head with a cuttlefish's coiled tentacles spreading above it.

William Evans Burton

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Lithograph portrait of a balding man in a dark suit and bow tie, labeled Eugene Field, on aged cream paper.

Eugene Field

Eugene Field, 1880

Oval lithograph portrait of a man with wavy hair in a dark coat and bow tie, signed Salmon P. Chase.

Salmon P. Chase

Leopold Grozelier, 1850

Engraved oval portrait of Admiral George Dewey in naval uniform, with an eagle, flags and arrows below.

Admiral George Dewey

William Henry Warren Bicknell, 1890