Various artists/makers
1850
Book cover for The Gift Book of the Republic, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, The Union and the Republic for Ever
[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]

Book cover
21 3/4 x 15 1/2 x 3/4 in. (55.2 x 39.4 x 1.9 cm)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924, Object Number: 24.90.1966
 
Title: 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
 
Publisher: Brady, D'Avignon and Company (New York, NY)
 
Lithographer: Francis d' Avignon (French, 1813–1861, active America 1840–60)
 
Artist: After Mathew B. Brady (American, born Ireland, 1823?–1896 New York)
 
Editor: Charles Edwards Lester (American, 1815–1890)
 
Sitter: Zachary Taylor (American, Montebello, Virginia 1784–1850 Washington, D.C.)
Sitter: John Caldwell Calhoun (American, 1782–1850)
Sitter: Daniel Webster (American, Salisbury, New Hampshire 1782–1852 Marshfield, Massachusetts)
Sitter: Silas Wright Jr. (American, Amherst, Massachusetts 1795–1847 Canton, New York)
Sitter: Henry Clay (American, Hanover County, Virginia 1777–1852 Washington, D.C.)
Sitter: John Charles Fremont (American, Savannah, Georgia 1813–1890 New York)
Sitter: John James Audubon (American (born Haiti), Les Cayes (Saint-Domingue) 1785–1851 New York)
Sitter: William Hickling Prescott (American, 1796–1859)
Sitter: General Winfield Scott (American, Petersburg, Virginia 1786–1866 West Point, New York)
Sitter: Millard Fillmore (American, 1800–1874)
Sitter: William Ellery Channing (American, Newport, Rhode Island 1780–1842 Old Bennington, Vermont)
Sitter: Lewis Cass (American, 1782–1866)
 
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