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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Hand-colored print of a man's head on a bird's body with pink breast and long tail, perched on a branch.

Sun Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Engraving of a horse-drawn carriage on a cobbled street with a woman passenger, a coachman, and a bearded man in an apron.

Escape with a Lady, as her Coachman, with Master’s Horse and Carriage

FOY, 1870

Engraving of six riders on two horses on a hillside beside an overturned wagon and a fallen man, with a farmhouse in the dist

Six on Two Horses

Wilbur F. Osler, 1870

Hand-colored print of a woman in a blue dress with a fan of pastel feathers, perched on a branch, titled Bird of Paradise.

Bird of Paradise

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of a woman's face on a bird's body perched on a branch with red flowers.

Taylor Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Hand-colored illustration of a colorful bird with a woman's head in a yellow bonnet, perched on a stalk with a hatbox.

Milliner Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Hand-colored lithograph of a hummingbird with a bearded man's head, perched among willow branches and flower spikes.

Humming Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Hand-colored print of a bird with a bearded man's head perched on a branch, and a bearded head on an insect body below.

King Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Wood engraving of a horse-drawn carriage crowded with a woman, children and men, driving past onlookers on a town street.

Escaping with Master's Carriages and Horses

Harriet Shepherd, 1870

Hand-colored lithograph of a bird with a bespectacled man's head perched on a quill pen beside an inkwell and paper.

Literary Bird

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Political cartoon of men reacting to a snarling black cat, Spirit of Discord, escaping a Republican Bag, 1860 lithograph.

Letting The Cat Out of The Bag

Louis Maurer, 1860

Hand-colored print of three Osage figures: two men with red and blue feathered turbans and face paint, and a woman with beade

Osage Indians: Mohongo, Washingsabba (or Black Bird), and Big Soldier

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1820