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Detailed engravings of 19th-century figures, showcasing traditional attire and formal poses. The artworks feature elaborate clothing and are monochromatic in style.

BARTHELEMY SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules (1805-1895). French politician, philosopher and orientalist.

BARTHELEMY SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules (1805-1895). French politician, philosopher and orientalist.

Francisco de las Rivas y Ubieta (1808-1882). Spanish industrialist and politician. First Marquis of Mudela and senator of the kingdom. In 1879 he acquired the iron and steel factory that the English company The Cantabrian Iron Company Limited had been building in Sestao since 1871. Portrait. Drawing by Badillo. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882.

Liebig, Justus Freiherr von.

Labitzky - (from a daguerreotype by Messrs. Beard), 1850. Portrait of Bohemian composer and musician Joseph Labitzky. 'The natural bent of his aptitude for dance composition was early developed, his first waltzes having won universal popularity...At St. Petersburg in Russia he was an especial favourite of, and much patronised by, the Imperial family. Labitzky is now the Kapelmeister of Carlsbad, and has given to the world some one hundred and eighty works...If Labitzky's compositions do not appertain to the highest class of music, he manages, by his imaginative temperament, clever contrivanc

SIR J. CORDY BURROWS, LATE MAYOR OF BRIGHTON, 1873

Johann Friedrich Cotta, Cotta von Cottendorf, 27 April 1764, 29 December 1832, was a German publisher, industrial pioneer and politician, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century document

Samuel J. Tilden, 1814 to 1886. American politician and political reformer. Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency 1876 and governor of New York. From a 19th century illustration.

BARTHELEMY SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules (1805-1895). French politician, philosopher and orientalist.

Andrew Johnson (1808-1875). 17th president of the United States of America (1865-1869). Portrait. Engraving. "Historia biográfica de los Presidentes de los Estados Unidos" (Biographical story of the Presidents of the United States). Published in Barcelona by Montaner y Simón, 1885.

James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States (1857-1861), served immediately prior to the American Civil War. He remains the only President to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor.

Historical drawing, US-American history, 19th century, portrait of Charles Francis Adams, 1835 - 1915, colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (born 20 October 1784 in Broadlands, Hampshire, died 18 October 1865 at his estate Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire) was a British peer, statesman and Prime Minister, digitally enhanced reproduction from an original from the 19th century, historical, exact date unknown.

THE LATE MR. E.M. WARD, R.A., 1879

Fermin Caballero y Morgaez (1800-1876). Spanish geographer, writer and liberal politician. Portrait. Drawing by Santiago Llanta. Lithography, 19th century. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Nueva, 1869.

Alexander von Humboldt

Andrew Johnson served as Abraham Lincoln's vice-president during Lincoln's second term as president of the United States. Upon Lincoln's death on April 15, 1865, Johnson became president, as per the terms of the Constitution. Johnson served as president from 1865-1869. .

The late Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and statesman, 1869. Engraving from a photograph by Alexandre Martin. De Lamartine's '...earliest recollections, as an infant, were of the Reign of Terror, when his father, as a Royalist, was imprisoned...He was appointed Attaché to the French Legation at Florence; next, as Secretary to the Embassy at Naples; and afterwards in London...His poetic work, an imitation of Byron, was entitled the "Dernier Chant de Childe Harold." In this poem...he scornfully reproached the Italians with their degenerate state as a nation; and their sens

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882). American poet. Engraving.

Fermin Caballero y Morgaez (1800-1876). Spanish geographer, writer and liberal politician. Portrait, detail. Drawing by Santiago Llanta. Lithography, 19th century. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Nueva, 1869.

Henry John Temple, 3. Viscount Palmerston geb. 20. Oktober 1784 in Broadlands, Hampshire, gest. 18. Oktober 1865 auf seinem Landgut Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire war ein britischer Peer, Staatsmann und Premierminister, digital verbesserte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19.Jahrhundert, Historisch, genaues Datum unbekannt 1f-4999774

Illustration of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple of Mount Temple, Engraved by Emery Walker. Lived between 1784-1865. English Whig-Liberal statesman. Print created from the original painting by G. Richmond. Originally published 1907.

THE LATE MR. HERMAN MERIVALE, C.B., 1874

The new French ministry: Count Napoleon Daru (Foreign Affairs), 1870. 'Count Napoleon Daru, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, was a godson of the first Emperor and of the Empress Josephine...His appointment excites the more remark because that is a department which the Emperor has hitherto been considered to manage by himself. Count Daru is described as "a thorough Parliamentarian. Not brilliant, not even remarkably elevated, but invincibly honest, straightforward, upright, and incapable of coming to a compromise with his conscience, he is just one of the members of the new Cabinet w

FRANZ ABT German composer Date: 1819 - 1885

Auguste de La Rive

Samuel Jones Tilden (1814-1886). Candidato demócrata para Presidente de los Estados Unidos, durante las disputadas elecciones de 1876 en EEUU. También fue Gobernador del Estado de Nueva York. Dibujo por Badillo. Grabado por Capuz. Coloreado. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 8 de septiembre de 1876.

Cecilio Acosta (1818-1881). Venezuelan politician, historian and writer. Illustration by Badillo. Engraving by Carretero. La Ilustracion Espaola y Americana, 1881.

The Late Rev. Dr. Murray, 1861. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Wood engraving;

Joseph Henry (1797-1878) American physicist.

SIR JOSEPH LISTER, BT.

ALPHONSE-MARIE-LOUIS DE PRAT DE LAMARTINE French writer in old age Date: 1790 - 1869

The late Sir John Taylor Coleridge, 1876. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Williams, of a British judge, '...a nephew of the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge...He attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he won a scholarship...obtaining a first class in classical honours. He had gained the Chancellor's University prize for Latin verse composition in 1810...In 1813 he gained both the Bachelor's prizes for essays in English and Latin, the subject of the former being "Etymology," and of the latter "The Influence of the Censorship upon the Morals of the Roman People."...

Sir Charles Lyell. Stipple engraving by G. F. Stoddart.

AUGUST HEINRICH NEITHARDT German musician, Kapelmeister of the Berlin Chapel Boys' Choir, which he brought to London in 1850 to considerable mutual satisfaction. Date: 1793 - 1861

Alphonse Lamartine

Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys (1805-1881). French statesman and diplomat. Portrait. Engraving. History of France, 1883.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini, 29 February 1792, 13 November 1868, Italian composer, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original,...

STRATFORD CANNING, first viscount STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE diplomat involved with the Crimea war. Date: 1786 - 1880

J.M. DA SILVA PARANHOS, VISCOUNT OF RIO BRANCO, 1872 engraving

Pius IX (1792-1878). Italian pope, named Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. Elected in 1846. Convened the First Vatican Council (1869-70). Engraving.

Portrait of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) a British statesman and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Dated 19th century

'Mr. M. Fenwick Bisset', 1879. Creator: Vincent Brooks Day & Son.

Ralph Waldo Emerson by Winslow Homer, 1859

John Singleton Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst, 1772 - 1863. British lawyer, politician and three times Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c

Victor von Bruns, 1812 to 1883, a German surgeon, physician and medical practitioner, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

The late King of Wirtemberg, 1864. Engraving of '...the deceased King of Wirtemberg, whose name was Frederick Charles, but who reigned by the title of William I...He deserves to be remembered as a just, faithful, and benevolent Prince, who ruled his small dominions in peace, and studied the welfare of his people, during the long period of forty-eight years. His death has caused a vacancy in the most noble Order of the Garter. In the present condition of Germany, it is probable that his son and successor, King Charles I., who is brother-in-law to the Russian Czar, will scarcely enjoy so tranqui

EDWARD CRAVEN HAWTREY Educator: Provost of Eton College. Date: 1789 - 1862

W. Keogh, Esq., M.P. for Athlone, 1850. Portrait of Irish politician and judge William Keogh, from a photograph by '...Kilburn, of Regent-street....Keogh published the "Practice of the Court of Chancery," which continues to be the text book of the court. He joined the Western Circuit, and at the bar, as in college, soon distinguished himself...: until the period of his entering Parliament, he had also an extensive practice both in the Rolls Court and Court of Chancery...He first spoke in Parliament upon the exclusion of Roman Catholics from the jury struck for the first trials of S

Georg Freiherr von Vincke, 15. Mai 1811 - 3. Juni 1875, war ein deutscher Parlamentarier, Verwaltungsjurist und Rittergutsbesitzer in der Provinz Westfalen / Georg Freiherr von Vincke, May 15, 1811 - June 3, 1875, was a German parliamentarian, administrative lawyer and knight's estate owner in the province of Westphalia, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

Von Denis, creator of the German railways

Portrait of José Mármol (1818-1871), Argentine poet and politician.. Madrid, National library. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Mr. John Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works - from a photograph by Cox, 1858. First Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and the first Leader of local government in London. 'During the agitation of 1848-9 among the gas consumers of the metropolis, for the purpose of reducing the price of gas to 4s. per 1000 feet, he was chairman of a large gas-consumers' committee, representing the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, and Greenwich, which eventually, owing to the obstinacy of the old companies, called the Surrey Gas-Consumers' Company into existence, Mr. Thwaites being ap

Jose Mu±oz Maldonado (1807-1875). First count of Fabraquer from 1847 and viscount of San Javier, journalist, novelist, historian, jurist and Spanish politician. Portrait. Engraving by Badillo. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1876.

Charles Lachaud (25 February 1817) (9 December 1882), Bonapartist lawyer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exac...

This 1866 illustration shows William Henry Seward. Seward was appointed Secretary of State by Abraham Lincoln on March 5, 1861, and served until March 4, 1869. Seward carefully managed international affairs during the Civil War and also negotiated the 1867 purchase of Alaska.

M.A. Couvreur, a member of the Chamber of Representatives, France, historic wood engraving, about 1888, Europe

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, 29 January 1782, 12 May 1871, French composer, Historical, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Alejandro Mon y Menendez (1801-1882). Spanish politician and jurist. Prime minister of Spain in 1864, during the reign of Isabella II. Drawing by Badillo. Portrait. Engraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882. Author: Félix Badillo (1848-1895). Spanish cartoonist. ILLUSTRATOR AND LITHOGRAPHER.

Engraved portrait of John Cam Hobhouse, Lord Broughton (1786-1869), the English radical politician and writer, pictured c.1869. Date: 19 June 1869

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). Church of England parson, novelist, Christian socialist, Protestant controversialist poet,amateur, naturalist,

Engraved portrait of Thomas Baring, the English financier and politician, pictured c.1873. Date: 29 November 1873

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Wilhelm Richard Wagner, 1813-1883, German composer, playwright, philosopher, poet, writer, theatre director and conductor

Millard Fillmore, American Candidate for the Presidency, from a Photograph by S. Root, Printed by L. Nagel, Published by W. Schaus, New York, NY, 1856

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, 1826 - 1893, a British politician

Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815-1905) was a bishop of the Catholic Church, benefactor and politician of Croatia. Bishop of Dakovo, one of the promoters of the Yugoslav national idea. He is considered the founder of the University of Zagreb and the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Voyage to the Southern Slavs by Georges Perrot, Le Tour du Monde 1870

Jan Tomasz Seweryn Jasiński (1806 Warsaw 1879 Warsaw) actor of the French school and director Styfi, Jan (1841 1921), woodcut K Osów

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa, 1808 - 1884, an Italian-English conductor and composer

David Strauss (1808-1874). German liberal Protestant theologian and writer. Engraving, Our century, 1883.

Heinrich Wilhelm August Freiherr von Gagern (20 August 1799) (22 May 1880) was a statesman who campaigned for the unification of Germany, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century original

This illustration is of General Sam Houston (1793-1863), an American frontier hero and statesman of Texas.

COWPER PHIPPS COLES Naval engineer, designer of HMS 'Captain'. Date: 1819 - 1870

Portrait of Sir Augustus Clifford, 1st Baronet, engraved shortly after his death in 1877. Clifford served in the Royal Navy as an Admiral and was Usher of the Black Rod in the Parliament of Great Britain. Date: 1877

Portrait of John Slidell (1793-1871), delegate of the Confederate States of America in France, involved in the Trent Affair, American Civil War, engraving from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, vol 38, no 983, December 28, 1861.

Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Franz Grillparzer, 1791 - 1872, an Austrian writer and national poet

Millard Fillmore, President of the United States, on Stone by A. Newsam from a Daguerreotype by N.S. Bennett, Washington City, Lithograph by P.S. Duval, 1850

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER American novelist in old age Date: 1789 - 1851

George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900) Marquis of Lorne (1837-1847), succeeded to the Dukedom in 1847. British Whig (Liberal) politician and scientist. Supported cataclysmic school of geology rather than uniformitarianism. Tinted lithograph.

Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, also Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky, born Karl Joseph Wenzel Prokop Rokitansky, 19 February 1804, 23 July 1878, an Austrian pathologist, politician and philosopher, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

CHARLES LYELL (1797-1875). Abogado y geólogo británico, uno de los fundadores de la Geología moderna. Destacó ene l uniformismo y gradualismo geológico. Grabado de "Historia Universal", S. XIX.

Karl Wilhelm Philipp von Auersperg, Carlos von Auersperg, 1 May 1814, 4 January 1890, a Bohemian-Austrian landowner and politician, Historical, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (1799-1869). British statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Leader of the Conservative Party. Portrait. Engraving by Garcia. Colored.

Engraving of Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut (1785-1870) a French general and statesman. Dated 1860

Engraving of Dr. David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, published in 1874. The discoverer of Victoria Falls, Livingstone's extensive explorations of Central Africa were chiefly driven by the strength of his missionary ideals. He died in Zambia in 1873, while searching for the source of the Nile. Date: 1874

Portrait of William Hone, 19th century political satirist and writer; Black and White Illustration;

Heinrich Kruse, 1815 - 1902, a German National journalist, poet and writer, historical engraving, about 1889

Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) American showman. Co-founder of the famous Barnum and Bailey circus. Engraving, 1884. .

Andrew Johnson (1808 Ð 1875). 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Democratic Party. Engraving in "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1875.

August Reichensperger, 1808 - 1895, was a German lawyer and politician as well as a sponsor of the Cologne Cathedral, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original.

Felix Marie Louis Pierre Esquirou de Parieu (15 April 1815 to 8 April 1893) was a French politician and economist, Historical, digitally enhanced reproduction of an original from the 19th century.

Jefferson Finis Davis, 1808, 1889, an American politician (U.) S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, the 23rd U. Secretary of War, and the P...

'Richard Wagner', (1933). Creator: Unknown.

Portrait of José Eugenio Moré y de la Bastida, Molina and Guzmán de Zafriño (1808 - 1890) 1st count of Casa Moré, senator of the kingdom for the province of Havana, adviser of administration in the section of the Treasury of Cuba, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1890

Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian composer, engraving by Ernesto Mancastroppa (1857-1909) after a photo by Guigoni and Bossi, from L'illustrazione Italiana, Year XXVIII, No 5, February 3, 1901.

William GGV Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) English lawyer and Liberal statesman, one of the great Parliamentarians of the late 19th century. Home Secretary (1880-1885), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886 and 1892-1895) who introduced death duties. Leader of the Liberal Party and of the Opposition (1896-1898). From 'The Modern Portrait Gallery' (London, c1880). Tinted lithograph.

James Buchanan, President of the U.S., Engraving by A.B. Walter, Published by C. Bohn, Washington DC, 1857

Granville George Leveson-Gower,2nd. Earl Granville, 1815-1891. Secretary of state for the colonies. From a photograph by Russell and Son, Chichester.

THE EARL OF DALKEITH, PRESIDENT OF THE SCOTT CENTENARY FESTIVAL, EDINBURGH, 1871

Count Vincenzio Benedetti, born 1815, French diplomat / Graf Vincenzio Benedetti, geboren 1815, französischer Diplomat, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of William Ewart Gladstone, 1809 - 1898, former British Prime Minister

José María Calatrava Peinado (1781-1846), político y juriconsulto español. Grabado de 1880.

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