The national portrait gallery of distinguished Americans
By: conducted by James B. Longacre and James Herring ; under the superintendence of the American Academy of the Fine Arts
Contributors: American Academy of the Fine Arts
Publisher: J.B. Longacre; J. Herring
Published: 1839
Place of publication: Philadelphia; New York
Language: eng
Other titles: National portraits
Notes: Added t.p., engraved.

An engraved portrait precedes each biographical essay.

Includes bibliographical references.

Bound in ornamental leather.
Table of contents: title: John Adams, second President of the United States; title: Abigail Adams, consort of John Adams; title: Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts, &c.; title: Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of Connecticut; title: John Rutledge, Governor of South Carolina; title: Henry Laurens, President of Congress, &c.; title: Thomas Sumter, Brigadier General U.S.A.; title: Richard Montgomery, Major General U.S.A.; title: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Major General U.S.A.; title: Thomas Pinckney, Major General U.S.A.; title: Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice U.S.; title: Thomas Mifflin, Major General U.S.A., and Governor of Pennsylvania; title: Thomas McKean, Governor of Pennsylvania, &c.; title: Robert Morris; title: Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General, &c.; title: Mordecai Gist, Brigadier General U.S.A.; title: George Rogers Clarke, Brigadier General U.S.A.; title: Simon Kenton, Brigadier General, &c.; title: Joshua Barney, U.S. Navy; title: Luther Martin, Attorney General of the State of Maryland; title: Samuel Chase, Associate Justice U.S.; title: Abraham Baldwin, Senator U.S. from Georgia; title: Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of the state of New York; title: John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States; title: Louisa Catherine Adams, consort of John Quincy Adams; title: William Harris Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury; title: Hugh Lawson White, Senator U.S. from Tennessee; title: John Randolph; title: William Charles Cole Claiborne, Governor of Louisiana; title: John McLean, Associate Justice U.S.; title: Edward Everett, Governor of Massachusetts; title: Thomas Say, naturalist; title: Nathaniel Bowditch; title: Philip Syng Physick; title: John W. Francis; title: Lydia Huntley Sigourney; title: Winfield Scott, Major General U.S.A.; title: Edmund Pendleton Gaines, Major General U.S.A.; title: Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States.