The national portrait gallery of distinguished Americans
By: conducted by James Herring and James B. Longacre, under the superintendence of the American Academy of the Fine Arts.
Contributors: Herring, James, 1794-1867.; Longacre, James Barton, 1794-1869.; American Academy of the Fine Arts.
Publisher: Monson Bancroft
Published: 1834
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: NUC pre-1956 NH 0319234
Volumes 1-3 have added engraved t.p. with dates: v.1: 1834; v. 2: 1835; v.3: 1836. An engraved portrait by any of a number of artists precedes each biographical essay.
LC copy imperfect: v. 1 lacks portraits of Daniel Webster and Edward Livingston.
LC copy v. 4 issued in parts (parts XXVII-XL in original covers). Imperfect: includes only 12 of the 39 biographies for this volume: Contains biographies of Robert R. Livingston, John Rutledge, Luther Martin, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Montgomery, William C.C. Claiborne, Joshua Barney, Thomas Say, Jonathan Trumbull, Abigail Adams, Thomas Pinckney, Thomas McKean.
Table of contents: title: v. 1: George Washington, 1st President U.S.; title: Martha Washington; title: Charles Carroll of Carrollton; title: Major-General Nathanael Greene; title: Major-General Anthony Wayne; title: Major-General William Moultrie; title: Major General Israel Putnam; title: Colonel Timothy Pickering; title: Governor Isaac Shelby; title: Governor Aaron Ogden; title: John Marshall, LL.D., Chief Justice U.S.; title: Edward Shippen, LL.D., Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; title: Brigadier-General Jonathan Williams; title: Daniel D. Tompkins, Vice President U.S.; title: Hon. Henry Clay, U.S. Senate; title: Major-General Andrew Jackson, President U.S.; title: Hon. Daniel Webster, U.S. Senate; title: Hon. William Wirt; title: Hon Lewis Cass, Secretary of War; title: Commodore Thomas Macdonough, U.S. Navy; title: Major-General Alexander Macomb; title: Hon. Joel R. Poinsett, LL.D.; title: Hon. Josiah S. Johnston, U.S. Senate; title: Hon. Edward Livingston; title: Hon. Louis M'Lane, Secretary of State; title: Right Rev. William White, D.D., Bishop of Pennsylvania; title: Rev. Timothy Dwight. S.T.D. LL.D.; title: Hon. Joel Barlow; title: Colonel John Trumbull; title: Gilbert Charles Stuart, Esq.; title: Samuel Latham Mitchell, M.D., LL.D.; title: Theodoric Romeyn Beck, M.D. Washington Irving, Esq.; title: Catharine M. Sedgwick; title: James Fenimore Cooper, Esq.; title: v. 2: Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., F.R.S.; title: Thomas Jefferson, 3d President U.S.; title: John Hancock, President of Congress; title: John Jay, President of Congress, Chief Justice U.S.; title: Patrick Henry; title: Major-General Joseph Warren; title: Major-General Henry Knox; title: Major-General Benjamin Lincoln; title: Major-General David Wooster; title: Major-General Philip Schuyler; title: Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury; title: Governor John E. Howard; title: Brigadier-General Otho H. Williams; title: Governor John Brooks; title: Colonel Francis Barber; title: John Barry, U.S. Navy; title: Daniel Boon[!]; title: David Rittenhouse, LL.D., F.R.S.; title: David Humphreys, LL.D.; title: Edward Preble, U.S. Navy; title: Oliver H. Perry, U.S. Navy; title: Major-General Jacob Brown; title: Governor Dewitt Clinton; title: Hon. James A. Bayard; title: Hon. John C. Calhoun, Vice President U.S.; title: Governor Robert Y. Hayne; title: Hon. William Gaston; title: Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of State; title: Mrs. Marcia Van Ness; title: Noah Webster, LL.D.; title: Caspar Wistar, M.D.; title: David Hosack, M.D., F.R.S.; title: James Kent, LL.D.; title: Charles Ewing, LL.D., Chief Justice of New Jersy; title: Governor George Wolf.; title: v. 3: James Madison, 4th President U.S.; title: Mrs. Madison; title: James Monroe, 5th President U.S.; title: John Dickinson; title: Francis Hopkinson; title: Elias Boudinot; title: Benjamin Rush, M.D.; title: David Ramsay, M.D.; title: Major-General Arthur St. Clair; title: Major-General Lachlan M'Intosh; title: Major-General Daniel Morgan; title: Brigadier-General Francis Marion; title: Brigadier-General Andrew Pickens; title: Brigadier-General Henry Lee; title: Brigadier-General William A. Washington; title: Major-General Morgan Lewis; title: Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge; title: Governor James Jackson; title: Governor William Richardson Davie; title: Commodore John Paul Jones; title: Commodore Richard Dale; title: Commodore William Bainbridge; title: Commodore Stephen Decatur; title: Major General William Henry Harrison; title: Stephen Van Rensselaer; title: Charles Brockden Brown; title: William Pinkney; title: Lindley Murray; title: Fisher Ames; title: Rufus King; title: Robert Fulton; title: Joseph Story; title: Martin Van Buren, Vice President U.S.; title: Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary of the Navy; title: Felix Grundy.