Historical Figures Engravings

Black and white engravings of notable historical figures, capturing their attire and dignified expressions in vintage illustrations.

James Buchanan, Likeness from Life, Engraved by J.C. Buttre, Published by Johnson, Fry & Co., 1857

Sir Henry Wentworth Acland. Lithograph.

Peabody, George .

Johnson, Andrew. Engraved portrait., 1820 - 1875. Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875. Engravings

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). English political. Engaving, 1883.

Sir Charles Lyell. Wood engraving by W. Murden, 1865.

George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900) British Whig (Liberal) politician and scientist. Supported cataclysmic school of geology rather than uniformitarianism. Tinted lithograph published c1880.

Daniel Webster (17821852) was an American orator and politician who practiced prominently as a lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court and served as a U.S. congressman, a U.S. senator, and U.S. secretary of state. He is best known as an enthusiastic nationalist and as an advocate of business interests during the period of the Jacksonian agrarianism.

James Buchanan, Likeness from Life, Engraved by J.C. Buttre, Published by Johnson, Fry & Co., 1857

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898). British Liberal statesman. Portrait. Engraving.

Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning KG GCB GCSI PC (14 December 1812 ñ 17 June 1862), known as The Viscount Canning from 1837 to 1859, was an English statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1884. Artist: Anon

Portrait of John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong during the Second Opium War. 19th century.

Portrait of Joseph Paxton (803-1865) an English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament who designed the Crystal Palace. Dated 19th century

REV. DR. MOORHOUSE, NEW BISHOP OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, ENGRAVING 1876

THE DUKE OF RICHMOND, 1870

William Ewart Gladstone, 29 December 1809, 19 angolan rousette (1898), was a British statesman of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, digital improved reproduction of an original 19th century print

Carlo Matteucci, physicist, physiologist

ANDREW JOHNSON 17th president of the USA, tailor's apprentice who reached the White House only to be impeached for his policies : he was acquitted. Date: 1808 - 1875

Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet (21 November 1787 28 April 1865) was a Canadian shipping magnate, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard shipping line.

Portrait of Armand Trousseau (1801-1867), Doctor, Professor of Medical Clinic at Hôtel-Dieu, Member of the Academy of Medicine Portrait of Armand Trousseau (1801-1867), doctor, medical clinic teacher at the Hôtel-Dieu, member of the Academy of Medicine. Business card (front). Photograph of Charles Reutlinger. Draw on albuminum paper, 1860-1867.

Governor Robert J Walker, Kansas Territorial Governor, 1857

William Ewart Gladstone (Liverpool Hawarden, 1809-1898). British statesman. Conservative MP (1832), went to the Liberal Party (1852) and was Minister of Finance (1852-1855 and 1859-1866). He advocated free trade, electoral reform and the autonomy of Ireland. Engraving.

THE LATE EARL GRANVILLE. BORN MAY 11, 1815; DIED MARCH 31, 1891.

Francis Mewburn (1785-1867) British solicitor and first to specialise in Railway law.

Daniel Webster, American statesman, (early 20th century). Artist: Gordon Ross

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, Prince di Canino. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1849.

Portrait of William Ewart Gladstone, engraving

Lewis Cass, Democratic presidential candidate for 1848. Secretary of War for Andrew Jackson, he implemented the Indian Lithograph ca 1848

Joseph Lister 1st Baron Lister 1827 to 1912 English surgeon From the book The Year 1912 illustrated published London 1913

George Peabody (1795-1869), American Financier and Philanthropist, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Compan

Rutherford Alcock (1809-1897) English army surgeon and diplomat. Consul in Fuchow 1844, Shanghai 1846; first Consul-general Japan 1858-65; Minister-plenipotentiary Peking 1865-1871. Photograph published 1877. Woodburytype

Sir John Pender, 1816 - 1896. Scottish submarine communications cable pioneer and politician. From The Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser, published 1907.

The late Lord Kinloch, Scotch judge, 1872. 'The death of Lord Kinloch, one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Edinburgh, took place on the 30th November, at Hartrigge, near Jedburgh. His Lordship had been in an infirm state of health for some time, but his death occurred somewhat suddenly. He was called to the Bar in 1824, was appointed a Lord of Session in 1858, and was transferred from the Outer House to the First Division, on Lord Curriehill's death, four or five years ago. Lord Kinloch was the author of various religious works in prose and verse. He has not been in court this session

Bruce, James Earl .

Portrait of James Murray Mason (1798-1871), delegate of the Confederate States of America in the United Kingdom, involved in the Trent Affair, American Civil War, engraving from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, vol 38, no 983, December 28, 1861.

William Ewart Gladstone, 29 December 1809, 19 May 1898, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, woodcut, England

Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871), American Diplomat, Head and Shoulders Portrait, on Stone by C.E. Lewis from a Photo by Mathew Brady, R.J. Compton, 1856

Engraving of Pierre Magne (1806-1879) A French-born politician. Dated 1870

1880s SENIOR PORTRAIT OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON AMERICAN ESSAYIST POET PHILOSOPHER AND CLERGYMAN FROM CONCORD MASSACHUSETTS USA

Stanley, 14. Earl of Derby, Edward Geoffrey Smith .

SIR CHARLES LYELL, BART, AND F, Charles Lyell, britischer Geologe aus The Illustrated London News, Unknown

Engraving of Don José de Salamanca, 1st Count of los Llanos (1811-1883) Spanish nobleman, politician and businessman. Dated 1860

Louis-Léon Rostan. Lithograph by A. Lascelles ?.

Portrait of the M. Haupt

THE LATE REV. JABEZ BURNS, D.D. THE CELEBRATED TEMPERANCE WRITER AND PREACHER. DIED JAN. FIST, 1876, UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) British Liberal statesman. Tinted lithograph published London c1880

Andrew Johnson (1808-75), 17th President of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Lithograph Bingham & Todd, Hartford, Conn., 1866

Sir James Graham, British politician, c1840s (c1890). Creator: Unknown.

Francis Lister Hawks, 1798 - 1866. American author, historian, educator and priest of the Episcopal Church.

Herbert Spencer. Photogravure, 1901, after Sir H. von Herkomer.

Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877). French statesman and historian. President of the Third Republic from 1871 to 1873. Thiers negotiated peace with Prussia and defeated the Paris Commune, insurrectionary movement in 1871. Portrait. Drawing by A. Sandoz. Engraving by Pannier. ""Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire"" (History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon), by A. Thiers. Volume I. Published in Paris, 1845.

Lord Halsbury, (1823-1921) British barrister, politician and government minister, 1896. Artist: Unknown

THE RIGHT HON. MARSHAL VISCOUNT BERESFORD D.C.L., G.C.B.

Daniel Webster , Politicians, Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852, Carte de Visite Collection

William Ewart Gladstone, 29 December 1809 - 19 May 1898, was a British statesman of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century.

Peter Francis Xavier de Chalevoix, S. J. born Oct. 29, 1682, died Feb. 1, 1761.. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761

1800s 1860s 1870s PORTRAIT CORNELIUS VANDERBILT AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR

Archibald Alison, Scottish didactic and philosophical writer, c1880. Artist: DJ Pound

Thomas Price (1813-1877). Irish circus businessman. Portrait. Engraving, 1877.

THE LATE HON. J.P. NORMAN, DEPUTY CHIEF JUSTICE OF BENGAL, 1871

Augustin Thomas Pouyer-Quertier 2 September 1820 - 2 April 1891) was a French industrialist and politician, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Franz Liszt, 1811-1886. Hungarian pianist and composer. Portrait by Chase Emerson American artist 1874-1922

M. GRVY, THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, 1879

'Samuel Morley (1809-1886) English hosiery manufacturer, Liberal politician, philanthropist, abolutionist and Congregationalist, joint proprietor of the ''Daily News''., endowed Morley College, London.'

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862), 8th President of the United States, 1837-1841, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Engraving by V. Balch from a Daguerreotype

Andrew Johnson possibly when he was Governor of Tennessee, 1853-1857. He encouraged the opening of public library's and the state's first public School system (BSLOC_2019_5_93)

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE British statesman. Date: 1809 - 1898

Eugene Rouher (1814-1884). French statesman of the Second Empire (1852-1870). Portrait. Drawing by Badillo. Engraving by Arturo Carretero (1852-1903). La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana (The Spanish and American Illustration), February 22, 1884.

'William Connor magee (1821-1891) c1877, Irish-born Anglican churchman, Bishop of Peterborough 1868-1891, Archbishop of York for about four months in 1891. Tinted lithograph c1880.'

Heinrich Leo, 1799 to 1878, a German historian and Prussian politician, historical woodcut, circa 1870, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th cent...

Daniel Webster, 1782-1852. Statesman, lawyer and orator. From the book ""The International Library of Famous Literature"".Published in London 1900. Volume XV.

Jan Theodor Vanderkemp (1748 - 1811) Pioneer Dutch missionary and protagonist of racial equality in South Africa. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

William Ewart Gladstone 1809-1898, British statesman. In a career stretching sixth years, he served as Liberal Prime Minister four times.

Samuel Nelson, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1845 to 1872

Friedrich Arnold. Lithograph by Bornemann after Pierson.

The Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, after the original Painting by H. Weigall, circa 1890, London, by Illustrated London News (Newspaper), Henry Weigall.

George Hudson - 1800 - 1871

Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Lithograph by C. Wildt after C. Begas, 1840.

PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer Date: 1810 - 1891

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was the sixth president of the United States (1825-1829).

Owen Lovejoy.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63), English Novelist, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New York, 1873

Portrait of L. G. Pareau, professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Historic lithography from the 19th century, portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer, also known as Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer, 1791 - 1864, a German composer and conductor

Eben Norton Horsford, (1818-1893), Chemist and Discoverer of Baking Powder, From James Sheridan Muspratt's Chemistry (London, c1860), Engraving

Antonio Pacintti (1841-1912), Italian physicist, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 26, June 25, 1911.

Darwin, Charles

Dr. F. W. C. Krecke.

Stanley, 14. Earl of Derby, Edward Geoffrey Smith .

FRANCIS GALTON Scientist - at age 38 Date: 1822 - 1911

'Spencer Horatio Walpole (1808-1898) English lawyer and Whig and Liberal politician. He served as Home Secretary three times in Lord Derby's administrations, 1822, 1858-1959, and 1866. Engraving.'

Henry Austin Bruce (afterwards Lord Aberdare). Liberal politician; MP for Merthyr Tydfil and later Renfrewshire, Home Secretary in William Gladstone's

Engraving of Edward Livingston, created by James Barton Longacre in 1881, New York

Francois Joseph Fetis. Belgian musicologist, musician, composer, critic and teacher. Date: 1784 - 1871

Dr F. C. van den Ham.

William Henry Smith (1825-1891), son of William Henry Smith (1792-1865), English businessman and politician. From The Modern Portrait Gallery (London, c1880). Tinted lithograph.

Carlos Zeferino Pinto Coelho (1819-1893). Jurisconsult and Portuguese politician. Portrait. Engraving by Rico. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1893.

Johnson , Carte de Visite Collection

CHARLES DARWIN Naturalist Photographed circa 1854 Date: 1809-1882

'(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813-1883) German composer, conductor, and theatre director. He built the Bayreuth Festspielhaus which opend in 1876 with ''Das Rheingold'' to stage his music dramas'

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