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Engravings and portraits of notable historical figures, primarily from France, showcasing intricate details and classic styles.

Frederick Calvert sixth Lord Baltimore (1731-1777) last in the line of Baltimore and 4th Proprieter of Maryland who never actually visited the colony. Accused of abduction and rape of Sarah Woodcock of Tower Hill but aquitted by the jury. Date: circa 1660
Frederick Calvert sixth Lord Baltimore (1731-1777) last in the line of Baltimore and 4th Proprieter of Maryland who never actually visited the colony. Accused of abduction and rape of Sarah Woodcock of Tower Hill but aquitted by the jury. Date: circa 1660
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Maistre, Joseph Graf.Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794). French lawyer and politician. Figure of the French Revolution. Member of Jacobin Club. Engraving. Portrait.Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791). French politician, leader of the early phases of the French Revolution. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú, Volume VI. 1857.Portrait of TalleyrandBuffon, Georges-Louis Comte.Frederick Calvert sixth Lord Baltimore (1731-1777) last in the line of Baltimore and 4th Proprieter of Maryland who never actually visited the colony. Accused of abduction and rape of Sarah Woodcock of Tower Hill but aquitted by the jury. Date: circa 1660Göckingk, Leopold Friedrich Günther von.Retrato de Pablo De Olavide (1725-1803), abogado, funcionario e ilustrado español. Museum: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL, MADRID, SPAIN. Author: MORENO DE TEXADA.Clinton, Sir Henry .Roger Ducos (Pierre Roger Ducos) (1747-1816). French politician during the Revolution and the Napoleonic France. Member of the National Convention and the Directory (1799). Portrait. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 2nd part, 1879.Tobias George Smollett. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley.Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, 1749-1827, französischer WissenschaftlerLouis Dubois du Bais (Louis-Thibaut Dubois-Dubais) (1743-1834). French military officer and politician. Portrait. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.John Hunter 1737-1821, British Navel officer and Governor of New South Wales, Australia 1795-1800. Dated 1795Conway, Henry Seymour .Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne, known as Rabaut-Saint-Etienne (1743-1793). French Protestant pastor, deputy for the Third Estate to the Estates General of 1789. President of the National Convention (24 January to 7 February 1793). Died by guillotine in December 1793. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.Lichtwer, Magnus Gottfried.Custine, Adam Philippe Graf von.Nicolas Francois de Neufchateau (1750-1828). French statesman, poet, and agricultural scientist. Portrait. Drawing by Rambert. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 2nd part, 1879.Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel, 9 October 1735, 10 November 1806, was a German prince, hereditary duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg and from 26 March 1780 sovereign of the principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th centuryPortrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), American politician, United States of America, engraving by Vernier from Etats-Unis d'Amerique, by Roux de Rochelle, L'Univers Pittoresque, published by Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1837.KANT, Emmanuel (1724-1804). German philosopher. Drawing by Schnoor (1760). Drawing.Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814). French writer, playwright and critic of Pre-Romanticism. Deputy of the National Convention and member of the Council of Five Hundred. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, part 2, 1879.Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, 1801. Among other achievements, Lavoisier (1743-1794) was one of the discoverers of oxygen, and established the laws of chemical combination.Alexander Hamilton.. Trumbull, John (1756-1843). 1888. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU, 1712-78 French writer and philosopher, 1791 engraving by A. Briceau (Rousseau was native of Geneva)American Revolutionary patriot John Hancock (1737-1793) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He strongly promoted resistance to British rule and served as president of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777.Laurent Lecointre (1742-1805). French politician. Engraving, 19th century.Stanisaw II August (Stanisaw August Poniatowski;1732 ñ 1798) last King and Grand Duke of the PolishñLithuanian Commonwealth (1764ñ95).Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), also Swedberg, Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, Best Known for this Book Heaven and Hell”, Book Illustration from Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910Francois-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas (1756-1826). French writer and politician. Elected deputy of the Third Estate for the seneschalty of of Annonay to the Estates General in 1789 (25 March 1789 to 30 September 1791). Member of the National Convention (21 September 1792 to 26 October 1795). Member of the Council of Five Hundred (27 October 1795 to 4 September 1797). Portrait. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, part 2, 1879.Portrait of a man, late 18th century / early nineteenth century. Gilles Louis Chrétien (1754-1811). Portrait of a man, at the end of 18th century - early nineteenth century. Physionotrace. 1786-1799.The Duke of Brunswick-Luneberg. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand 1735-1806. German military general.Engraved by Pannemaker after Drambert.From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc.Portrait of the E. F. KleinFrançois Buzot (François Nicolas Léonard Buzot) (1760-1794). French politician. Elected deputy to the National Convention in 1792, joining the Girondins. Opposed the creation of the Committee of Public Safety. Portrait. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). Swedish naturalist and botanist. He established binomial nomenclature. Portrait. Engraving by Geoffroy. Detail. "Historia Universal", by Cesar Canto. Volume VI. 1857. William Hutton, 1723 - 1815, English bookseller, poet, historian and travel writer. He was the first important historian of the city of Birmingham and authored a book, History of Birmingham in 1781.Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette (Pierre Gaspard Anaxagore Chaumette) (1763-1794). French politician. In 1790 he joined the Club des Cordeliers (Cordeliers Club). He was a fervent anticlerical. Portrait. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.Portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Black and WhitPortrait of Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius. Portrait of the statesman and poet Samuel Iperuszoon Wiselius.Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1730-1807), Baron de Breteuil. French diplomat and statesman. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.James Currie. Stipple engraving by J. Brain after T. Hargreaves.Linné, Charles of.Maximilien-Francois-Marie-Isidore de RobespierreHonore Gabriel Riqueti Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791. French revolutionary statesman.Engraved by Pannemaker-Ligny after De La Charlerie. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc.Cesarotti, Melchiorre.Pedro Cevallos Guerra (1760-1840) was a Spanish statesman and diplomat who served as Chief Minister from 1799 to 1808 during the Napoleonic Wars, although Manuel Godoy, a personal favourite of the Spanish King, had a vast influence over political affairs.Portrait of the English statesman William Pitt.A portrait of Alexander Hamilton, created by John Trumbull (1756-1843). The artwork was issued between 1777 and 1890 and completed in 1888. Hamilton was born in 1757 and passed away in 1804Robert John Thornton. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1803, after J. Russell.Jacques-Guillaume Thouret (1746-1794). French revolutionary politician. Elected deputy to the Estates General in 1789 for the Third Estate of Rouen. He was elected president of the Constituent Assembly four times, but renounced to the first one on 3 August 1789. He was guillotined in Paris during the Reign of Terror. Portrait. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.Portrait of George Canning (1770-1827) British statesman and former Tory politician and Prime Minister. Dated 19th CenturyPortrait of Johannes Huibert Prins. .Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794). French lawyer and politician. Figure of the French Revolution. Member of Jacobin Club. Engraving. Portrait. (Photo by: PHAS/UIG)Historia de España. Manuel Godoy Álvarez de Faria Rios Zarosa (1767-1851), político español, favorito del rey Carlos IV y reconocido como el príncipe de la paz. Grabado de 1880.Silas Talbot 1751 - 1813. American officer in the Continental Army and Continental Navy. From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.Jean le Rond D'Alembert (1717-1783) French philosopher, mathematician and encyclopedist. 18th century. Collaborated with Denis Diderot (1713-1784) on the 'Encyclopedie' of which he was scientific editor until 1758 and for which he wrote the 'Discours Preliminaire' declaring the philosophy of the French Enlightenment. From 'The Gallery of Portraits', (London, 1834). Engraving.Benjamin Franklin. Engraving after J. S. Duplessis, 1778.Portrait of General Reed, member of Congress, president and commander in chief of the State of Pennsylvania., 1880, New York, EngravingsPhilippe Francois Nazaire Fabre D'eglantine, 1755-1794. French dramatist and revolutionist. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc.James Mitchell Varnum 1748 - 1789. American lawyer and general during the American Revolutionary War. From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.Alexandre de Lameth (1760-1829). French soldier and politician. Engraving in History of France, 1883.Antonio de Campmany Montpalau (1742-1813), historiador, filólogo y político catalán, legislador en las cortes de Cádiz. Grabado de 1880.Portrait of Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac (1755-1841) French politician, freemason, journalist, member of the National Convention. France, French Revolution 18th century. Old engraved illustration from Histoire de la Revolution Francaise 1845Francois Nicolas Leonard Buzot, 1760-1794. French revolutionary leader. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc.Lord Cornwallis.. Prints. 1777 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, Marquis, 1738-1805Richard Kempenfelt (1718-1782), British rear-admiral, apart from achievements in war he introduced a new signalling system.Linné, Charles of.George Washington (1732-1799). 1st President of the United States (1789-1797). Portrait. Engraving. "Historia Universal" by Cesar Canto. Volume VI. 1857. Charles Malo de Lameth (1757-1832). French soldier and politician. Engraving in History of France, 1883.Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818). Irish-born British politician and pamphleteer. He belonged to the Whig party. Portrait. Engraving by A. Ronmer after a painting of John Hoppner (1758-1810). Historia Universal, 1881.Jacques Necker, 30 September 1732, 9 April 1804, was a Geneva banker and finance minister under Louis XVI, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century originalJeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. UK. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837Antoine Barnave (Antoine-Pierre-Joseph-Marie Barnave) (1761-1793). French politician. Elected deputy for the Third Estate to the Estates General in 1789. Defender of the constitutional monarchy and co-founder of the Feuillants Club. Portrait. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876. Author: Hippolyte de la Charlerie (1827-1869). Belgian artist.Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Freteau de Saint-Just (1745-1794). French politician. Elected deputy of the nobility for Melun and Moret-sur-Loing to the Estates General in 1789. President of the National Constituent Assembly (10 to 27 October 1789). Portrait. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.Antonio Maria Bucareli y Ursua (1717-1779). Spanish general. Governor and Captain General of the island of Cuba (1766-1771). Viceroy of New Spain (1771-1779). Portrait. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias (General Chronicle of Spain, Illustrated and Descriptive History of its Provinces), Antilles, 1871.Maximilien Robespierre 1758-1794 Jacobin leader during French Revolution Engraved by W H Mote from the book Historical Sketches of Statesmen published London 1843Guy Jean-Baptiste Target (1733-1806), magistrate and politician.James Watt. Stipple engraving by J. Thomson, 1820, after T. Griffiths after Sir T. Lawrence, 1815.Trophime Gerard de Lally-Tollendal, 5 March 1751, 11 March 1830, was a French nobleman and politician, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th centu...Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660344Jean-François Reubell (1747-1807). French politician and diplomat. Constituent deputy to the National Convention (1792-1795), Feuillant (Club des Feuillants) and later Montagnard (La Montagne), he supported the regicide of King Louis XVI and the war against the First Coalition. President of the Executive Directory of the French Republic and president of the Directory on 11 November 1795. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.Carolus Linnaeus. Stipple engraving by S. G. & J. G. Facius after A. Roslin, 1775.George Washington (1732-1731). Frist President of the US. Engraving, 1883.Engraving, Nuestro Siglo, 1883.Bentzel Starau, Christian Ernst Graf von.Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). American scientist, inventor and politician. In 1776 he wrote, with Jefferson and John Adams, the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America. Portrait. Engraving by Geoffroy. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú. Volume VI. 1857. Author: Charles Geoffroy (1819-1882). French engraver.John Quincy Adams ca. 1795-1800 American. John Quincy Adams. American. ca. 1795-1800. Watercolor on ivory in gold ring with brightwork decorationHistorical print, 1802, portrait of Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, 1741 - 1796, a German statesman, writer and social critic, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, Illustrated Atlas of the History of German National Literature, by Gustav Koennecke, 1887Iffland, August Wilhelm .THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet and dramatist, known for 'Death's jest-book'. Date: 1803 - 1849John Raphael Smith, 1752-1812, British, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, 1782. Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured.Luckner, Nikolaus Graf.Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after M. Dumont, 1825.Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) American physician and naturalist; professor of natural history and botany Philadelphia 1789-1815. Engraving published New York 1896James Watt (1736-1819). Scottish inventor. Engraving. 19th century.Jean-Baptiste Kleber (1753-1800). French general who took part in the French Revolutionary Wars. Portrait. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 2nd part, 1879.Victor de Broglie (Charles Louis Victor de Broglie) (1756-1794), Prince of Broglie. French general and politician. He served with the Marquis de La Fayette and the Comte de Rochambeau in the American War of Independence. He presided over the assembly of the nobility of the bailiwicks of Colmar and Selestat, which elected him, on 1 April 1789, deputy of the nobility to the Estates General. He was a member of the Jacobin Club and sat in the National Constituent Assembly. Chief of Staff of the First Republic's Army on the Rhine. During the Reign of Terror, he was denounced, arrested and guillotined in Paris. Portrait. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.Louis-Thibaut Dubois-Dubais, also spelled Louis Dubois du Bais, 1743 -1834. French politican. From Histoire de la Revolution FrancaiseJean-Francois Reubell (1747-1807). French politician and diplomat. Constituent deputy to the National Convention (1792-1795), Feuillant (Club des Feuillants) and later Montagnard (La Montagne), he supported the regicide of King Louis XVI and the war against the First Coalition. President of the Executive Directory of the French Republic and president of the Directory on 11 November 1795. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Lithograph after J. L. David.