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Andrew Jackson, president of the United States / painted by W.J. Hubar...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting in a chair, facing front, with legs crossed and hands on lap.

[Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding hi...

Public domain photograph of 19th-century portrait, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[William Howard Taft, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, in...

Copyright Alex. Washn. Lodge #22, A.F.& A.M., Alexandria, Va. Public domain photograph related to President William Howard Taft, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[King Kelly, Chicago White Stockings, baseball card portrait]

Baseball card title devised by Library staff. Issued by: Goodwin & Company. "$10,000"- -caption on card. Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

[Warren G. Harding, half-length portrait, seated in vehicle, facing ri...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph related to President Warren G. Harding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Full-length profile portrait of a woman, possibly Turkman or Kirgiz, ...

A woman standing in front of a thatched hut. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Hope Cooke, Queen of Sikkim, seated, three-quarter length portrait, f...

Date from related slide: LC-KAN05-072. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikk... More

Portrait of a Roman, (terra cotta), Roman, first century B.C.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Roman sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

John Hancock - Public domain portrait engraving

Portrait, bust, facing right. "Engraved by J.B. Longacre from a painting by Copley." This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique / Js. Gillray--in...

An elderly Sir William Hamilton inspecting his antiquities, all of which refer to his wife, Lady Emma Hamilton and her lover, Lord Horatio Nelson. In the background hang four pictures on the wall: "Cleopatra", ... More

Lorenzo Ghiberti Scvltore Fiorentino / G. Vasari, T.I. ; G. Batt.Cocch...

Lorenzo Ghiberti, half-length portrait, facing left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y., ca...

Wilmoth Houdini (Frederick Wilmoth Hendircks, sometimes known as Edgar Leon Sinclair) Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb The Renaissance Ballroom information was provided in th... More

[Portrait of Wilmoth Houdini, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y., ca...

Wilmoth Houdini (Frederick Wilmoth Hendircks, sometimes known as Edgar Leon Sinclair) Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb The Renaissance Ballroom information was provided in th... More

[Portrait of unidentified woman, Wilmoth Houdini, Duke of Iron (Cecil ...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb The Renaissance Ballroom information was provided in the 2014 [Bear Family] publication Calypso Craze, 1956-1957 and Beyond (EAN: 53971021694... More

[Portrait of Macbeth (McDonald Augustus Fritz), Renaissance Ballroom, ...

Purchase William P. Gottlieb General information about the Gottlieb The Renaissance Ballroom information was provided in the 2014 [Bear Family] publication Calypso Craze, 1956-1957 and Beyond (EAN: 53971021694... More

[Head-and-shoulders portraits of Johann Gutenberg, Martin Luther, Pete...

Public domain reproduction of German art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Portrait of Macbeth, Count of Monte Cristo, Lord Invader, and Wilmoth...

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[Portrait of Gregorio Delgado, Renaissance Ballroom, New York, N.Y., c...

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[Portrait of Count of Monte Cristo, Macbeth, Duke of Iron, Wilmoth Hou...

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[Jean de Gerson, 1362?01428, full, standing, facing left, carrying shi...

May have been executed by durer during apprenticeship. Illus. in: Opera, 1489. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564, bust portrait, facing right]

Sculptor & painter. K32153 U.S. Copyright Office. Halftone reproduction of painting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Leonard De Vinci Lionardo Da Vinci, pittore NDL (monogram)

Leonardo da Vinci, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing coat trimmed with fur and hat. Illus. from: Academie des sciences et des arts / Issac Bullart. Bruxelles, 1695, V (365).

Henry Meyer - Correggio / engraved by H. Meyer.

Correggio, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. On recto: After a head by himself in the Cathedral of Parma. On recto: Under the superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci pitt. scul. e archi. Fiorentino / L. da Vinci pinsit...

Leonardo da Vinci, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Simone, Sanese, Pittor, Simon Memmi / DL.

Simone Martini, half-length portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ferdinand Magellan, 1581, 16th century, engraving, Library of Congress

Portrait, bust, facing left. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Portrait of a youth, half length, facing slightly right]

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Drawing formerly attributed to Jan van Mechelen; Netherlands; 16th century. From Fritz Koreny, Albertina, Nov. 1996: Not by Mechelen. Approximately ... More

Siricius I PP Romanus, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Saint Siricius, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, with inset of coat of arms. Reproduction of drawing(?). Copyright by J. William Gnecchi.

[Portrait of Lucas van Leyden] / L [monogram].

Title from caption card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. No call number on caption card

[Portrait of Emanuel Rudasill, Company M, 16th North Carolina Regiment...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an American Civil War, military forces and conflict, officer, uniform, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Christopher Columbus - Public domain portrait engraving

Portrait, bust, 3/4 facing right. Engraving by John Sartain from the original portrait presented to William A. Bryan, Esq., of Virginia by H.M. the late Queen Sophia of Holland. This record contains unverified,... More

Amerigo Vespucci, 1451-1512, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Reproduction of anonymous painting. "Ed. Alinari. Firenze - R. Galleria Uffizi. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.

[Main Reading Room. Portrait statue of Michelangelo along the balustra...

Forms part of the Library of Congress Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Michel-Ange / Michel-Ange pinxt. ; J.L. Potrelle delt. et sculpt.

Michelangelo, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Albrecht Durer - [St. Christopher, facing right] / AD [monogram].

Saint Christopher walking across river with child on his back, hermit in background. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Hollstein, 52. Meder, 52. ... More

South West gate leading into Indapendance [i.e., Independence] Square,...

Framed. Accompanying labels detached from cover glass: "27" and "11." Label from back of frame: Daguerreotypes are "mirror Reflections" and show the picture in reverse. This is an entrance to Independence Squar... More

[Mathematician Girolamo Cardano, half-length portrait in oval, facing ...

Illus. and text in: De subtilitate libri XXI / Girolamo Cardano. Basileae : Per L. Lucium, 1554. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 236.

[Title page of Quesit et inventioni diverse; with half length portrait...

Title page in: Quesit et inventioni diverse / Nicolo Tartaglia. [Venetia : Per N. de Bascarini], 1554. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 236.

A bearded man, wearing a crown, seated at table facing several others ...

Woodcut by Gomar. Illus. in: H. Staden, Warhaftig Historia und beschreibung einer Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen Grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Neuen Welt, part I, Chapter XLVI (Marburg, 1557). This r... More

[Apology by author, la table desmerade d'Hermes Trimegiste, father of ...

Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Leon Battista Alberti, 1404-1472, head and shoulders portrait, facing...

Public domain reproduction of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Elogiorum - Andreas Auria Classis prospectus, engraving, Library of Co...

Bearded man holding oar. Illus. in: Paolo Giovio, Elogia Virorum Bellica Virtute Illustrium..., Basilea, 1575, p. 374. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Triastao da Cunha, 1460?-1540 - Public domain portrait engraving

Head and shoulders, facing left; framed with allegorical scenes. Illus. in: Paolo Giovio, Elogia Virorum Bellica Virtute Illustrium..., Basilea, 1575, p. 230. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record co... More

[Person with crossed eyes, head-and-shoulders view]

Illus. in: Ophthalmodouleia / George Bartisch. [Dresden : Gedruckt durch M. Stockwel], 1583, p. 13. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 147.

Strabon geographe. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Strabo, half-length portrait, facing right, holding world globe. Illus. in: Les Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes / Par Andre Thevet. A Paris : Par la vefue I. Keruert et Guillaume Chaudier, 1584, p. 76 (recto).

[Philip II of Spain] / Ieronimus W. fe.

Head-and-shoulders portrait facing slightly right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Titiani Vercellii pictoris celeberrimi ac famosissimi vera effigies

Titian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Bartsch, 154 (2nd state). LeBlanc, 244. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the Uni... More

Maria Regina Scotiae--Mortis at Horrendam Faciem [...] / PM.

Mary, Queen of Scots, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. LeBlanc 4; Nagler 8(174). Possibly engraved by Pieter Maes II (Hubbard). Hubbard Collection.

[An old man in his winter clothes] / T.B.

An aged Native man from Pomeiock, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing winter garment; landscape scene with village in the background. Illus. in: Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Geleg... More

René Descartes, 1596-1650, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Engraving by W. Holl after painting by Franz Hals. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P Index (2); BI; Shelf.

Pizzaro, Francisco, 1598-, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Claudius de Saint Simon, Episcopus Princeps Metensis par Franciae / pe...

Saint-Simon, full-length portrait, facing left, seated holding book. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parmigianino - Temperance / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani].

Allegorical print showing a woman as Temperance, one of the cardinal virtues, seated, facing right, pouring liquid from a chalice, possibly diluting wine with water. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Ren... More

Roast beef & port or Bully Bramble Esqr., Justice of Peace in Wasp Tow...

"Portrait, W.L., of a stout man facing T.Q. to right, looking to left over his right shoulder. His left hand is thrust under his buttoned coat; his right (gloved) rests on a cane..." (Source: George) No. 24. Ca... More

Michelangelo Morigi / Marcellino Minasi incise diretto d'Antonino Mina...

Michelangelo Amerighi da Caravaggio, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left.

The Flute Player 17th century - Public domain portrait engraving

after a painting by Otto Vorsterman, painter, 17th century (artist notes) Flemish (artist nationality) draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Vorsterman, Otto, 17th century (original artist) Recto: u. l.: (engr... More

Recorder Player 17th century - Public domain portrait engraving

after a painting by Dirck van Baburen, painter, ca. 1595-1624 (artist notes) Dutch (artist nationality) painter, draughtsman and engraver (artist role) Baburen, Dirck van, ca. 1595-1624 (original artist) Recto:... More

Sir Walter Raleigh - the true and lively

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. Engraving by Simon van de Passe (1591-1644). "Comp. Holland exe." This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Hubbard Collection.

Ohka no oiran - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a view from behind of a courtesan seated beneath a branch of cherry blossoms. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: ve... More

Hugues de Saint Victor - Public domain portrait engraving

Hugues de Saint Victor, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding book.

Hernando De Soto - Public domain portrait engraving

Portrait, half, facing left. Engraving by J. Maca. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Christian IV, King of Denmark] / Böner sc.

Half-length portrait, facing left. Inscription: Christiano quarto re di Danimarca, e di Norvegia duca d' Holstein. Hubbard Collection. Hollstein, 17. LeBlanc, 19.

Thomas Willis, M.D., ob. 1675 Aeta 54 G. Vertue sculp., 1742

Thomas Willis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, in oval frame.

B. Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole, Pittore / G. Vasari, T.I. ; G. Batt.C...

B. Giovanni Angelico da Fiesole, half-length portrait, facing left, with pen on paper.

Hernando de Alarcon ... / B. Bazquez lo grabó ; J. Lopez Enguidanos lo...

Half-length portrait, standing, facing right. Illus. in: Retratos de los españoles ilustres con un epitome de sus vidas. Madrid : Imprenta real, 1791. Ref. copy in BIOG FILE - Alarcon, Hernando de.

Sir Francis Drake, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Portrait, head and shoulders, facing left. Engraving by W. Hall. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. "From an original Picture in the possession of Sir T.F. E... More

Samuel de Champlain - Public domain portrait engraving

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Portrait, 3/4 facing left; maturity. Reproduction of painting.

Michael Angelvs Bonarotvs Partitivs Florentinvs an - agens LXXIV / Chr...

Michelangelo, head-and-shoulders portrait in oval, facing left, wearing hat. H de T. Stat. stamped in lower right corner.

[Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, half-length portrait, facing rig...

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Detail of A map of Virginia of 1612, showing Powhatan in the royal wi...

Engraving by Robert Vaughan. Illus. in: John Smith's, Generall Historie of Virginia ... London, 1624, plate 13. Reference copy may be in SSF - Indians of North America Dwellings. This record contains unverified... More

Bartolomeo Coriolano - Head of Cupid, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows head and shoulders of Cupid with eyes closed. After Guido Reni. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. ... More

Mr. Hobson, obyt ano 1630, vixit annos 86 / J. Payne fecit.

Print shows half-length portrait of Thomas Hobson, standing, facing front holding a money bag. Hobson was a weathly mail carrier from Cambridge, England, known for establishing the phrase "Hobson's choice." Poe... More

Abraham caressing Isaac 17th century, engraving, Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of male portrait print, engraving, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pietro Testa - [Self-portrait] - Public domain portrait engraving

Rittratto di Pietro Testa pictore eccel., delineauit et sculpsit. Romae superiorum permisu Arnoldo Van Westerhout formis. Nagler, 1. Pennell Fund, 65-16. Title from shelflist card.

Hugo Grotius, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Hugo Grotius, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Title page of "A Feast for Wormes" 1642 [Jonah] by Francis Quarles, a...

Head and shoulders, right profile. Illus. in: A Feast for Wormes, opp. title page This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Ref. copy in Biog. File. Caption card tracings: RBD; BI Works; BI; Shelf.

Illustrissimo viro Domino D. Joanni Baptistæ Colbert / Nanteuil ad viv...

Print showing Jean Baptiste Colbert, head-and-shoulders portrait in medallion hanging on an obelisk, supported by two women in allegorical scene with turtle, rooster, hourglass, dog, and putti, with men working... More

Erasmus Rotterdm sic W. Vaillant fec. et ex

Desiderius Erasmus, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wallerant Vaillant - W. Vaillant W. Vaillant, fecit

Wallerant Vaillant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Signed in pencil. LeBlanc, 9. Hubbard Collection.

Claude Perrault de l'Accademie Royalle des Siences / Vercelin, pinxit ...

Half-length portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Engraved portrait of Kenelm Digby and title page from his Choice and ...

Illus. in: Kenelm Digby, Choice and Experimented Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery, 1668, title page. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring 1981, p. 91. This record contains unverified, old data from caption c... More

Grigor'ev's bell of 1655 showing the portrait of Patriarch Nikon

Bell and descriptive information below. Illus. in: Eric Palmquist, Nagre widh sidste kongl. ambassaden till tzaren muskow, 1674, leaf 20. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - BELLS. This record contains unverified dat... More

Grigor'ev's bell of 1655 showing the portrait of Patriarch Nikon

Bell only. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Frontispiece (portrait) of Robert May and title page from his book, T...

Illus. in: Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook, or, The art and mystery of cookery. London, 1678, frontis. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring 1981, p. 88. This record contains unverified, old data from caption ... More

[Peter the Great, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right]

Hubbard Collection. No. 2829-1. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martinus Hemskerkus Harl / E. de Boulonois fecit.

Martin Van Heemskerk, half-length portrait, standing, facing left. Illust. from: Academia des sciences et des arts ... /Isaac Bullart. Brusselle : Foppens, 1682-1695, LIV. VI., p. 435. LeBlanc, Boulonois no. 51

Gemma Frisius / Esme de Boulonois, fe.

Frisius Gemma, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Illus. possibly from: Academia des sciences et des arts ... / Isaac Bullart. Brusselle : Foppens, 1695. Not listed in LeBlanc.

Hvbertvs Ab Eyck, Ioannis Frater, pictor / E. de Boulonois fecit.

Hubert van Eyck, half-length portrait, facing left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ioannes Ab Eyck pictor / E. de Boulonois fecit.

Jan Van Eyck, half-length portrait, facing right. Illus. from: Académie des sciences et des arts ... / Isaac Bullart. Brusselle : Foppens, 1682-1695, Liv. VI, p. 379. LeBlanc, Boulonois no. 43

[Murad (Amurath) IV, Sultan of the Turks, 1612-1640, full-length portr...

Illus. in: Thesaurus exoticurum / Everhardo Gvernero Happelio. Hamburg : T. von Wiering ..., 1688, section 4, between p. 14 and 15.

[Frontis., John Bunyan, head and shoulders portrait, sleeping - in bac...

Engraving by Sturt. Illus. in: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, frontis. Reference copy may be in LOT 4443. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI; Shelf.

Folger Library copy work. Shakespeare portrait by Zucchero

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain photograph of 17th-century male portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

James I, King of Great Britain, France, & Ireland, &c / M. Vdr. Gucht ...

James I, head-and shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Etienne de Montgolfier, cooperateur et inventeur de l'art aérostatiq...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist, Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier. Tissandier collection.

Francois Seraphin Delpech - Gay-Lussac / lith. Delpech., Head and Shou...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of French scientist and balloonist Gay-Lussac who tested several hypotheses on the earth's atmosphere. Tissandier collection.

Edmund Burke, Esq. - Public domain portrait engraving

Portrait, 3/4 bust, facing left. Engraving for the Universal magazine. Printed for J. Hinton at the King's Arms in Paternoster Row. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent r... More

[ Recorder player and singer] - Public domain portrait drawing

German (artist nationality) painter and etcher (artist role) Verso: l. l.: (in pencil) C575/491 (inscription) Brush and grey wash drawing. (medium) Fine condition. (condition) Henning Oppermann, Buchantiquariat... More

Conradus Detlev a Dehn / Hyacs. Rigaud pinxit. ; F. Chereau lainé scul...

Three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait of Andrew Jackson