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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

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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

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

1850

Medium

Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes

Tags

Dimensions

21 3/4 x 15 1/2 x 3/4 in. (55.2 x 39.4 x 1.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924

Classification

Books

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Henry Clay

1712 –1812 •

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