Portraits of Famous Writers Philosophers, Inventors, Etc

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Portraits of famous authors, philosophers, inventors, political figures, etc.

from miscellaneous 18th-20th century sources

Note: some age-appropriate foxing/toning/tears/soiling or other issues may be present.
Please click on a thumbnail image for an enlarged view and to assess condition from the detailed scan provided.

The digital Darvill's watermark does not, obviously, appear on the actual original antique print

REF-31

[Molière]

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 10 inches

minor foxing

$25

REF-32

Molière

Sheet size: approx. 9 x 12 inches

minor foxing/browning edges

$20

REF-33

Rosseau

Sheet size: approx. 7.25 x 10.875 inches

minor foxing

$20

REF-34

Marie Antoinette

Sheet size: approx. 7.25 x 10.875 inches

minor foxing and soiling in margins

$20

REF-35

Joan of Arc in Prison

Sheet size: approx. 7.25 x 11 inches

minor soiling in margins

$20

REF-36

Locke

Sheet size: approx. 7.25 x 11 inches

soiling/fox mark in margins

$20

REF-37

Richard Henry Lee

Sheet size: approx. 7.25 x 11 inches

soiling/fox marks in margins

$15

REF-38

William Penn

Sheet size: approx. 7.25 x 11 inches

minor foxing

$15

REF-39

Edward Gibbon

Sheet size: approx. 8.25 x 11.25 inches

minor foxing

$20

REF-40

Oliver Goldsmith

Sheet size: approx. 8.375 x 11.125 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$20

REF-41

Giovanni Boccaccio

Sheet size: approx. 7 x 10.875 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$20

REF-42

Miguel de Cervantes

Sheet size: approx. 10 x 14.75 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$25

REF-43

Hernan Cortes

Sheet size: approx. 9.675 x 13.75 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$20

REF-44

[Copernicus]

Sheet size: approx. 9 x 13.5 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$20

REF-45

Sir John Packington

Sheet size: approx. 7 x 10.25 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$20

REF-46

Robert Fulton

Sheet size: approx. 6.875 x 9.25 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$20

REF-47

Robert Fulton

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 10.75 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$25

REF-48

Robert Fulton

Sheet size: approx. 8.375 x 11.125 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$25

REF-49

Stanley Livingstone, Esq, LLD

Sheet size: approx. 10 x 13.375 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$25

REF-50

Stanley Livingstone

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 11.675 inches

minor foxing/soiling, spot in left margin

$25

REF-51

William Harrison

Sheet size: approx. 10.125 x 13.25 inches

foxing/soiling, spots in margin

$15

REF-52

Horace Greeley

Sheet size: approx. 7.25 x 10.375 inches

foxing/soiling, spots in margin

$15

REF-53

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sheet size: approx. 8.25 x 11.25 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$25

REF-54

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sheet size: approx. 8.25 x 11.25 inches

minor foxing/soiling

$25

REF-55

The Reverend Henry Ward Beecher

Sheet size: approx. 9.375 x 12.5 inches

some foxing/soiling

$20

REF-56

Edward Matthew Ward

Sheet size: approx. 9.25 x 13.675 inches

some foxing/soiling

$20

REF-57

Mme Julia Bartet

Sheet size: approx. 9 x 12 inches

minor foxing

$25

REF-58

Mrs Andrew Jackson

Sheet size: approx. 9.375 x 12.5 inches

some foxing/soiling

$10

REF-59

Lady Byron

Sheet size: approx. 7.25 x 10.75 inches

minor foxing/age toning

$25

REF-60

Lord Byron

Sheet size: approx. 8.675 x 11.75 inches

minor foxing/age toning

$30

REF-61

Lady Byron

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 10.675 inches

minor foxing/age toning

$15

REF-62

Lady Byron

Sheet size: approx. 8.75 x 11.675 inches

foxing/age toning/short edge tears

$10

REF-63

Robert Burns

Sheet size: approx. 7.75 x 10.675 inches

minor foxing/age toning

$25

REF-64

Charles Dickens

Sheet size: approx. 8.25 x 10.875 inches

minor foxing/age toning

$25

REF-65

Charles Dickens, Esq.

Sheet size: approx. 9.875 x 13.875 inches

some foxing and age toning of paper

$20

REF-66

Walter Scott, aged 6, 1777

Sheet size: approx. 4.675 x 7.5 inches

age toning of paper/stain lower right

$10

REF-67

His Grace John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury

Sheet size: approx. 8.5 x 10 inches

minor foxing/age toning

$25

REF-68

Robert Walpole

Sheet size: approx. 5.25 x 8.5 inches

minor foxing/age toning

$25

REF-69

Sir Nathaniel Bacon

Sheet size: approx. 9 x 10.875 inches

minor foxing/age toning, engraving 'tipped' at top side only to black backing paper

$25

REF-70

The Duke of Wellington

Sheet size: approx. 9.375 x 12 inches

minor age toning

$20

REF-71

Villiers, Duke of Buckingham assassinated by John Felton at Portsmouth, Aug. 23, 1628

Sheet size: approx. 11.5 x 9 inches

minor age toning/foxing

$20

REF-72

Mr Creswick as Coriolanus

Sheet size: approx. 8.25 x 11.75 inches

minor age toning/foxing

$20

REF-73

Gladstone at 22, while Traveling in Italy Received the Summons to Enter Parliament

Sheet size: approx. 6.75 x 9.25 inches

unobtrusive wrinkle through upper image, dog-ear crease upper left corner

$20

REF-74

Hawarden Castle, the Home of Gladstone

Sheet size: approx. 9.125 x 6 inches

somewhat narrow bottom margin, as issued

$10

REF-75

William E. Gladstone

Sheet size: approx. 12.25 x 16.25 inches

with multiple folds, as issued / short tears / wear / toning / old sticky tape on BACK center fold for reinforcement

$20

REF-76

John Locke, Esq.

Sheet size: approx. 8.5 x 12.5 inches, hand-made, laid paper

with multiple creases, foxing in margins

REF-77

Russell, first Earl of Bedford

Sheet size: approx. 4.625 x 8 inches, hand-made, laid paper

minor age toning

$25

REF-78

George Morland
The Celebrated Painter

Sheet size: approx. 6 x 9.75 inches

minor foxing

$25

REF-79

Sir Christopher Wren

Sheet size: approx. 7 x 10.75 inches

some foxing

$25

REF-80

[Oliver Goldsmith]

Sheet size: approx. 5 x 8.5 inches

$15

REF-81

Oliver Goldsmith
after the picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sheet size: approx. 6.125 x 8.875 inches

minor foxing

$20

REF-82

Oliver Goldsmith
Canonbury Tower, Islington, Middlesex

Sheet size: approx. 4.875 x 8.5 inches

minor foxing, uneven margins

$20

REF-83

Goethe

Sheet size: approx. 6.5 x 9 inches

some foxing

$20

REF-84

Goethe

Sheet size: approx. 5.75 x 9.375 inches

some foxing, browning around edges

$20

REF-85

Goethe

Sheet size: approx. 4.5 x 7.125 inches

some foxing, damp stain top, faint crease lower right corner

$15

REF-86

Byron

Sheet size: approx. 4.675 x 7 inches

some foxing, damp stain top

$15

REF-87

J. Fennimore Cooper

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 10.75 inches

some foxing

$20

REF-88

Henry W. Longfellow

Sheet size: approx. 7.125 x 10.75 inches

very foxed, horizontal crease (as issued?)

$10

REF-89

[Thackeray]

Sheet size: approx. 5.25 x 8.5 inches

some foxing, faint blue smear on collar

$10

REF-90

Wm Thackeray

Sheet size: approx. 5 x 7.875 inches

some minor rumpling

$15

REF-91

[Nathaniel Hawthorne]

Sheet size: approx. 4.75 x 7.5 inches

some foxing and staining

$10

REF-92

[Victor Hugo]

Sheet size: approx. 5.125 x 8.5 inches

minor rumpling

$10

REF-93

Washington Irving

Sheet size: approx. 6.125 x 9.25 inches

some foxing, upper right corner torn

$10

REF-93B

Washington Irving

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 10.675 inches

foxing

$10

REF-94

J. Fennimore Cooper

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 10.675 inches

minor foxing in outer margins

$15

REF-95

William Cullen Bryant

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 10.675 inches

minor foxing in margins

$15

REF-96

Henry W. Longfellow

Sheet size: approx. 8 x 10.675 inches

some foxing. mostly in margins

$15

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