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 · Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes · Drawings and Prints
Illustrated book bound in blue cloth with gold stamping. Front cover stampedin gold: "The Gift Book of the Republic, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, The Union and the Republic for Ever" (with emblem below). The title page reads: "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, C. Edwards Lester, editor, New York: M. B. Brady, F. D'Avignon, C. Edwards Lester, MDCCCL." The volume contains portraits of: General Zachary Taylor, John Caldwell Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Silas Wright, Henry Clay, John Charles Freemont, John James Audubon, William Hickling Prescott, General Winfield Scott, President Millard Fillmore, William Ellery Channing, and Lewis Cass each followed by a biography.
- 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
- Date
- 1850
- Medium
- Illustrations: lithographs after daguerrotypes
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924
