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Engraved oval portrait of a man in a cravat and period coat, framed by laurel branches, with the name Joel Barlow below.

Joel Barlow

Louis Charles Ruotte, 1790

Engraved double portrait of Charles and Henry Meade beside text columns and engravings of Swedes Church and a Michigan copper

Charles and Henry Meade

Mar Charles Richard Meade, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph portrait of John C. Breckinridge in brown coat and blue cravat, before red drapery and a column.

John Cabell Breckinridge

Nathaniel Currier, 1861

Etching of a bearded man in a suit holding a palette and brushes beside an easel with an inscription.

Thomas Nast Self-Portrait

Thomas Nast, 1900

Mezzotint portrait of Henry Laurens seated beside a draped table with quill and papers, in a columned interior.

Henry Laurens

Valentine Green, 1780

Oval lithographic portrait of James K. Polk in a dark coat and bow tie, framed by an ornate scrolled border.

James K. Polk

Albert Newsam, 1840

Engraved portrait of William Augustus Bowles in a feathered headdress, ruffled shirt and sash, against a dark background.

William Augustus Bowles

Joseph Grozer, 1790

Engraved oval portrait of General Washington in military dress, with a small scene of a surrender ceremony below.

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale, 1770

Hand-colored print of American naval officers landing by boat to meet Japanese officials under pine trees on a riverbank.

Landing of Commodore Perry, Officers and Men of the Squadron, to Meet the Imperial Commissioners at Simoda, Japan, Ju…

Jr Eliphalet M. Brown, 1850

Silas Deane

Benoît-Louis Prévost, 1780

Engraved portrait of Major General Richard Montgomery in tricorn hat and military coat, holding a sword, standing on ground.

Richard Montgomery

John Norman, 1780

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and cravat, with the caption Wilson Lumpkin, Governor of Georgia.

Wilson Lumpkin

Charles Fenderich, 1830

Hand-colored print portrait of John Hancock in a blue coat and powdered wig, framed by drapery and a laurel wreath.

John Hancock

Sr John Coles, 1790

Caricature of a bearded man in a bowler hat and striped coat holding a pipe, with a red horse crest at upper right.

Arthur J. Caton

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat with curly hair, shaded in loose dark hatching.

Unidentified Man

William Miller, 1890

Engraving of a large amphitheatre with a crowd, a violent melee of armoured figures, and bearded men in classical dress.

Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum

Thomas Nast, 1860

Lithograph portrait of Reverend John P. Donelan in clerical dress with embroidered stole and wire-rimmed spectacles.

John Philip Donelan

Charles Fenderich, 1840

Hand-colored portrait of a man in a suit and cravat within an ornate botanical frame with an eagle at top.

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Thomas Corwin

Jr John Plumbe, 1840

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark jacket and bow tie, with a handwritten signature below the image.

Daniel Stevens Dickinson

Thomas Doney, 1840

Lithograph portrait of a seated man in a dark suit and white cravat, holding a book, labeled Abbott Lawrence.

Abbott Lawrence

Marcus Ormsbee, 1850

Engraved portrait of a man with curly hair, dark fur-collared coat and white cravat, labelled Washington Irving.

Washington Irving

Moseley Isaac Danforth, 1830

Engraved portrait of Queen Anne in a crown and pearls, within an ornate oval frame flanked by two allegorical figures.

Queen Anne

Godfrey Kneller

Wood engraving of a bearded man in military coat above a crowded garden bazaar scene, on an 1864 newspaper page.

James Longstreet

James Longstreet, 1861

Engraved portrait of Peter III in a wig and fur-trimmed robe, with a crown on a pedestal beside him.

Peter III

Oval engraved portrait of General Nathanael Greene in a military uniform with epaulettes, on a foxed paper sheet.

Nathanael Greene

Elkanah Tisdale, 1790

Lithograph portrait of General Winfield Scott in uniform with a sword, before an American flag and an eagle emblem.

General Winfield Scott

Joseph Edward Baker, 1860

Hand-colored oval portrait of John Adams with powdered hair and white cravat, inside an ornate decorative frame.

John Adams

Albert Newsam, 1840

Wood engraving of a crowded formal reception at the White House with officers and women in gowns beneath a chandelier.

Grand Reception at the White House, January, 1862

Alfred R. Waud, 1861

Oval engraved portrait of a seated bishop in a dark cassock with a pectoral cross, beside a carved wooden chair.

John McCloskey

George Edward Perine, 1860

Stonewall Jackson

John A. O'Neill, 1861