American Portraits
Medium: Steel Engraving
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Napolean
1769-1821$850
Artist: David
Engraver: Lauger
Publisher: Sauve
Date: 1835
Size: 26 ½" x 18 ¼"
Condition: Very Good
David Livingstone
1813-1873$65
Artist: Chappel
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Jonson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1872
Size: 10 ¾" x 8 ½"
Ulysses. S. Grant
1822-1885$100
Artist: Thomas Nast
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1866
Size: 10 ½" x 7"
Condition: Very Good
Napolean on his Horse
1769-1821$950
Artist: Horace Vernet
Publisher: Engelmann, Paris & London
Date: 1829
Size: 22 1/8" x 18 7/8"
Condition: Very Good. Sight tear on left side margin.
George Washington
1732-1799$125
Artist: Gibert Stuart
Engraver: William Sartain
Date: 1872
Size: 17 ½" x 13 ¾" (image)
23 ½" x 17 ¼" (full page)
J. Fenimore Cooper
1789-1851$65
(likeness from a painting)
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1861
Size: 7 ¼" x 5 ½"
Charles Brockden Brown
1771-1810$65
Artist: William Dunlap
Engraver: I. B. Forrest
Publisher: Unknown
Date: 1806
Size: 4 3/8" x 3 ½" (image)
10 ¼" x 6 ¾" (page)
Noah Webster LLD
1758-1843$65
Artist: S. F. B. Morse
Engraver: J. Rodgers
Publisher: John Tallis & Co., NY & London
Size: 10 5/8" x 7"
Nathanael Greene
1742-1786$65
Artist: Based on a original photograph by Chappel
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson Fry Co., NY
Date 1858
Size: 10 ¾" x 8 ½"
Anne Hasseltine Judson
1789-1826$65
Missionary. Founder of 1st Baptist Association
Artist: J. B. Wandesforde
Engraver: P. Halpin
Publisher: Derby & Jackson, NY
Size: 6 ½" x 4 5/8"
Alexander Macomb
1782-1841$65
Engraver: J. B. Longacre
(based on a painting by T. Sully)
Size: 4 ½" x 3 5/8"
Putnams escape at horse neck
1718-1890$65
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1866
Size: 10 ½" x 7 ¼
Phil H Sheridan
1831-1888$65
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: Unknown
(Based from the original painting by Nast)
Publisher: Johnson Fry $ Co., NY
Date 1865
Size: 10 ½" x 7 1/8"
Robert Morris
1734-1806$65
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Engraver: Phillibrwon
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1863
Size: 10 ¼" x 7 ¾"
John James Audubon
1785-1851$100
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1861
Size: 7 ¼" x 5 ¼" (image)
10 ½" x 8" (page)
Robert Livingston
1749-1813$65
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Engraver: Phillibrown
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1858
Size: 7 5/8" x 5 ½" (image)
10 ¾" x 8" (page)
Thomas H Benton
1782-1858$65
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1862
Size: 10 ¾" x 7 ¾"
Albert Gallatin
1761-1849$65
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1862
Size: 10 ¾" x 7 ½" (page)
Zachary Taylor
1784-1850$65
(Likeness taken from a daguerreotype soon after his return from Mexico)
Publisher: Johnson Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1859
Size: 10" x 7" (page size)
William H. Seward
1801-1872$65
Artist: M. B. Brady
Engraver: A. H. Richie
Publisher: Unknown
Size: 6 ½" x 5 1/8" (oval)
10 ½" x 7 ½" (page)
William H. Seward
1801-1872$65
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1863
Size: 10 ¼" x 7 ¼"
Washington's
Inaugural Address1732-1799
$850
Engraver: H. S. Sadd
Publisher: Neale , NY
Date: 1849
Size: 18 ¼" x 25"
Washington Irving
1783-1859$65
Artist: C. R. Leslie R. A.
Engraver: M. J. Danforth
Publisher: Unknown
Size: 4 3/8" x 3 ½"
William Cullen Bryant
1794-1778$65
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: W. Wellstood
Publisher: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Size: 10 1/8" x 6 7/16"
The First Cabinet
$65Artist: Chappel
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1866
Size: 10 ½" x 7"
Inauguration of Washington
$65Artist: Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1866
Size: 10 ½" x 7"
David Wilke
1785-1841$65
Artist: Sir W. Beechey
Engraver: H. Robinson
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1834
Size: 10 7/8" x 8 3/8"
David Farragut
1801-1870$65
Artist: Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1863
Size:10 ¾" x 7 7/8"
David Farragut
1801-1870$65
Artist: Gurney & Son (from a photograph)
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1868
Size:10 ½" x 7"
David D. Porter
1813-1891$65
Artist: Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
Date: 1863
Size: 10 5/8" x 7 7/8"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807-1882$40
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
1863
10 ¾" x 7 ¾"
George Washington
1732-1799$65
Artist: G. Stuart
Engraver: G. R. Hall
Publisher: W. A. Townsend
8 ¼" x 5 ½"
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
1806-1886$50
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
1867
10 ½" x 8"
Benjamin West
1738-1820$45
Artist: G. H. Harlow
Engraver: J. Jenkins
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
1829
10 ¼" x 7"
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790$55
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
1873
10 ¾" x 7 ¾"
John Jacob Astor
1963-1848$50
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
1864
7 ½" x 5 ½" , Full Margins
George H. Thomas
1816-1870$65
Artist: Thomas Nast
(Likeness from a recent photograph)
Publisher: Johnson Fry & Co., NY
1858
10" x 7 ¼"
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European Portraits
Medium: Steel Engraving
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Presidents of the USA
$75Artist: Robert W. Weir
Engraver: J. W. Casilear
Publisher: New York Mirror
1834
14" x 10 ¼"
William Gilmore Simms
1806-1870$40
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
1867
10 ¾" x 7 ¾"
William Cullen Bryant
1794-1878$45
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
1862
10 ½" x 7 ¾"
Washington Irving
1783-1859$40
Artist: Alonzo Chappel
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co., NY
1861
10 ½" x 7 ½"
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Marquis de Lafayette
1757-1834$65
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: C. Schlecht
Publisher: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Size:10" x 6 ¼"
Toussaint Louverture
1743-1803$75
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: Delpech
Publisher: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Size:10 ¾" x 6 ¾"
Thomas Cromwell
1485-1540$65
Artist: Holbein
Engraver: W. Holl
Publisher: London Printing and Publishing Co.
Date: Unknown
Size: 10 7/8" x 7 1/8"
Sir Walter Raleigh
1554-1618$60
Artist: Unknown
Medium: Line & Stipple Engraving
Date: Mid 19c.
Size:10" x 6"
Sir Thomas Lawrence
1769-1830$65
Artist: Charles Landseer
Engraver: J. Thomson
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1831
Size:10 ¼" x 6 7/8"
Sarah Siddons
1755-1831$75
Artist: Gainsborough
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Wilson & Co., NY
Date: Unknown
Size: 10 ¾" x 7 15/16"
Robert Dudley
1533-1588$65
Engraver: H. T. Ryall
Publisher: Hohn Tallis & Co., London and NY
Date: Mid 19c.
Size: 10 7/8" x 7 1/8"
Raphael Sanzio
1483-1520$45
Artist: Raphael
Engraver: W. Holl
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1834
Size: 10 7/8" x 8 1/8"
Queen Victoria
1819-1901$75
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: W. Wellstood
Publisher: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Size: 10 ¼" x 6 7/16"
Prince of Idzu
$65Artist: W. Heine
Engraver: W. G. Jackman
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Date: Unknown
Size: 9 ¾" x 6 3/8"
Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774$45
Artist: Joshua Reynolds
Engraver: T. W. Knight
Publisher: Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh & London
Date: Unknown
Size: 9 ½" x 5 ¾"
Moreau-Platoff-ETC
$45Artist: Unknown
Engraver: Freeman
Publisher: Edward Bains
Date: 1814
Size: 10 ¼" x 8 1/8"
Mary- Queen of Scots
1542-1587$65
Artist: J. Champagne
Engraver: W. G. Jackman
Publisher: Demby & Jackson, NY
Date: Unknown
Size: 11" x 7 ½"
Louis XVIII
1755-1824$70
Artist: E. Isabey
Engraver: W. Holl
Publisher: Edward Bains, Leeds
Date: 1815
Size: 10 ¼" x 8"
Louis XVI
1754-1793$45
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Size: 9 3/16" x 6 7/8"
Louis XVI
1754-1793$65
Artist: M. Gratis
Engraver: Topham
Publisher: Edward Bains
Date: 1814
Size: 10 3/16" x 8 1/16"
Leopold Frederick
1790-1865$65
Artist: Sir. Thomas Laurence
Engraver: J. Thomson
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1831
Size: 10 ¼" x 6 ¾"
Lajos Kossuth
1802-1894$65
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: C. A. Jewett & W. Anderson
Publisher: Middleton
Date: Unknown
Size: 10 ¼" x 6 ¼"
John Franklin
1786-1847$65
Artist: Derby
Engraver: Thomson
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1830
Size: 10 ¼" x 6 7/8"
Goethe
1749-1842$65
Artist: F. Bruckmann
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Wilson & Co., NY
Date: Unknown
Size: 10 ¾" x 7 ¾"
James Mackintosh
1765-1832$65
Artist: Sir Thomas Laurence
Engraver: J. Cochran
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1834
Size:10 ¾" x 8 3/16"
James Duff
1776-1857$65
Artist: M. Rochard
Engraver: W. Holl
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1830
Size: 10 ¼" x 6 ¾"
Hernán Cortés
1485-1547$55
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: W. Greatbach
Publisher: R. Miller
Date: Unknown
Size: 9 5/16" x 5 7/16"
H. R. H. Albert
1819-1861$30
Artist: G. Richmond
Engraver: John Sartain
Publisher: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Size: 9 1/8" x 5 5/8"
George-Augustus Frederick IV
1762-1830$65
Artist: T. Laurence
Engraver: E. Scriven
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1831
Size: 10 ¼" x 7"
George William Frederick III
1738-1820$65
Artist: T. Laurence
Engraver: W. Holl
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1830
Size: 10 ¼" x 7 15/16"
George Stephenson
1781-1848$65
Artist: John Lucas
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Johnson, Wilson & Co., NY
Date: Unknown
Size: 10 ¾" x 8"
George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augutus
1819-1878$30
Artist: G. L. Saunders
Engraver: T. A. Dean
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1831
Size:10 ¼" x 6 7/8"
Frederick William III
1770-1840$65
Artist: Frederick Bolt
Engraver: Unknown
Publisher: Edward Bains
Date: 1814
Size: 10¼" x 8"
William Pitt Amherst
1773-1857$65
Artist: Sir Thomas Laurence
Engraver: Freeman
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1829
Size: 10 ¼" x 6 ¾"
Francis II
1768-1835$75
Artist: A. Dumont
Engraver: Meyer
Publisher: Edward Bains Leeds
Date: 1815
Size:10 ¼" x 8"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861$45
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: J. C. Buttre
Publisher: Unknown
Date: 1862
Size: 10 ¼" x 6 5/8"
Cardinal Richelieu
1585-1642$65
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: W. Holl
Publisher: A. Fullarton & Co., London & Edinburgh
Date: Unknown
Size: 10 5/8" x 7 7/8"
Baron Cuvier
1769-1832$65
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: C. & G. Cook
Publisher: Blackie & Son, Glasgow, Edinburgh & London
Date: Unknown
Size: 9 ½" x 6 ¼"
Baron Cuvier
1769-1832$65
Artist: Unknown
Engraver: S. Freeman
Publisher: Blackie & Son, Glasgow
Date: Unknown
Size: 9 5/8" x 5 11/16"
Arthur Wellesley
1769-1852$65
Artist: T. Laurence
Engraver: T. Woolmoth
Publisher: Fisher, Son & Co., London
Date: 1829
Size:10 ¼" x 6 5/8"
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