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Stipple engraving oval portrait of a man in a dark coat and cravat, with caption naming zoologist Dumont de Sainte Croix.

Charles-Henri-Frédéric Dumont de Sainte Croix. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu, 1827, after himself

Ambroise Tardieu

Stipple engraving portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark double-breasted coat and white cravat, labelled Thomas Nuttall.

Thomas Nuttall. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1825, after W. Derby

Sketched portrait of a man with curly shoulder-length hair and lace collar, with French handwritten captions above and below.

Blaise Pascal. Stipple engraving, 1844, after J. Domat, 1637

Black and white portrait of a seated man with a mustache holding an open book, printed on a light mount.

David Livingstone. Photogravure after F. Havill

Frederick Havill

Jean-Theophile Gahn. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after himself

Ambroise Tardieu

Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher. Stipple engraving by C. W. Bock, 1798, after himself

Christoph Wilhelm Bock

Stipple engraving oval portrait of an elderly man in a dark coat and white cravat, labeled Jacques-Louis Marin de France.

Jacques-Louis Marin de France. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu, 1827, after himself

Ambroise Tardieu

Mezzotint portrait of Sir Samuel Garth in a full periwig and dark coat, with an inscribed coat of arms below.

Sir Samuel Garth. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1733, after Sir G. Kneller

Godfrey Kneller

Stipple engraving portrait of Samuel Crompton, seated with his hand to his head, dark coat and white cravat.

Samuel Crompton. Stipple engraving by J. Morrison after C. Allingham

Charles Allingham

Mezzotint portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark coat and white cravat, before a draped curtain.

Sir Lachlan Maclean. Mezzotint by J. Young, 1818, after J. G. Strutt

Jacob George Strutt

Stipple engraving portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat, labeled Thomas Young, M.D. F.R.S.

Thomas Young. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1840, after Sir T. Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence

Mezzotint portrait of a man with wavy hair and white cravat, signed John Sims M.D. below the image.

John Sims. Mezzotint by D. Lucas, 1839, after C. R. Leslie, 1824

Charles Robert Leslie

Stipple engraving portrait of a bearded man with long wavy hair, labelled Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff.

Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. Stipple engraving by G. J. Stodart after W. Brookes

Warwick Brookes

Stipple engraving portrait of seated Professor William Thomas Brande in dark coat, holding a closed book.

William Thomas Brande. Stipple engraving by C. W. Sharpe after L. Wyon

Grey wash portrait of a man in a dark robe with a white collar, holding a quill over an open book beside bookshelves.

Michiel Boudewyns. Drawing by A. van Diepenbeeck, 1664

Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Mezzotint portrait of an elderly man in a powdered wig and waistcoat, resting his hand on an open book beside a chair.

John Fothergill. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1781, after G. Stuart

Mezzotint portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, with engraved caption below.

Sir William Jackson Hooker. Mezzotint by W. Walker after S. Gambardella

Spiridione Gambardella

Mezzotint portrait of a seated man in a wig and embroidered coat, with bookshelves and an open book behind him.

Robert Conny. Mezzotint by J. Faber, 1722, after A. Vanderhagen

Alexander van der Hagen

Wood engraving of a standing man in a frock coat leaning on a bookcase, holding an open book, with caption naming John Grant.

John Grant. Wood engraving by C. Grant, 1838

Colesworthey Grant

Stipple engraving portrait of a young man in a dark coat and white cravat, labeled Henry Lichtenstein.

Martin Heinrich Karl Lichtenstein. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1812

Stipple engraving of an elderly man with powdered hair in a dark cassock and white clerical collar, signed Goulu.

Charles Michel, Abbé de l'Epée. Stipple engraving by F.S. Goulu

Ferdinand Sébastien Goulu

Stipple engraving of seated John Locke in dark robes and lace cuffs in an armchair before bookshelves.

John Locke. Stipple engraving by H. Robinson, 1832, after Sir G. Kneller, 1704

Godfrey Kneller

Wood engraving portrait of an elderly bearded man with wavy white hair in a dark coat and cravat.

John Conolly. Wood engraving after T.D. Scott, 1866

Thomas Dewell Scott

Stipple engraving portrait of a grey-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat, with a medal, turned three-quarters to the v

Edmé Joachim Bourdois de la Motte. Stipple engraving by A. J. Mécou after J. Isabey

Jean-Baptiste Isabey

Mezzotint portrait of an elderly man in a dark coat and powdered wig, seated beside a writing desk with inkwell and quill.

Alexander Hunter. Mezzotint by J. R. Smith, 1805

John Raphael Smith

Stipple engraving oval portrait of a man with long hair and white collar, hand on chest, on cream paper.

August Herrmann Franke. Stipple engraving by T. Blood, 1813

Stipple engraving portrait of Peter Dollond in a powdered wig and dark coat, with a telescope beside him.

Peter Dollond. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1820, after J. Hoppner

Jean-Anne-Henri Depaul. Process print by Reymond, 1896

active 1896 Reymond

Stipple engraving portrait of a seated man in a powdered wig and lace cravat, with bookshelves and a potted plant behind him.

Noël Joseph de Necker. Stipple engraving by A. Karcher, 1786, after F. Beckers, 1785

Francisca Beckers

Coloured stipple engraving of a man in a powdered wig and brown coat, in an oval frame, dated 1794.

Franciscus Josephus Pahud de Valangin. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Collyer, 1794, after L. F. Abbott

Lemuel Francis Abbott