The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington
Object type: Book
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Henry Clay|Silas Wright Jr.|William Hickling Prescott|John Caldwell Calhoun|Charles Edwards Lester|William Ellery Channing|John James Audubon|John Charles Fremont|Zachary Taylor|Millard Fillmore|Lewis Cass|General Winfield Scott|Daniel Webster|Francis d' Avignon|Mathew B. Brady|Brady, D'Avignon and Company
Artist bio: American, Hanover County, Virginia 1777–1852 Washington, D.C.|American, Amherst, Massachusetts 1795–1847 Canton, New York|American, 1796–1859|American, 1782–1850|American, 1815–1890|American, Newport, Rhode Island 1780–1842 Old Bennington, Vermont|American (born Haiti), Les Cayes (Saint-Domingue) 1785–1851 New York|American, Savannah, Georgia 1813–1890 New York|American, Montebello, Virginia 1784–1850 Washington, D.C.|American, 1800–1874|American, 1782–1866|American, Petersburg, Virginia 1786–1866 West Point, New York|American, Salisbury, New Hampshire 1782–1852 Marshfield, Massachusetts|French, 1813–1861, active America 1840–60|American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York|New York,  NY
Artist role: Sitter|Sitter|Sitter|Sitter|Editor|Sitter|Sitter|Sitter|Sitter|Sitter|Sitter|Sitter|Sitter|Lithographer|Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: American|American|American|American|American|American|American, born Haiti|American|American|American|American|American|American|French|American, born Ireland|American
Date: 1850
Medium: Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
Dimensions: 21 3/4 x 15 1/2 x 3/4 in. (55.2 x 39.4 x 1.9 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
Accession year: 1924
Tags: Men|Portraits