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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1875 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Engraving Date: circa 1800 Pagination: 1 print : b&w ; Order a Copy

One engraving of a set of portraits of notable men dated circa 1800. This is a series of twenty portraits aon one page of notable men including; Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Homer, William Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Scott, Irving, Chalmers, Campbell, George Washington, Lafayette, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams.

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Washington, George, 1732-1799

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