The Century Gallery of 100 Portraits, Selected from The Century Magazine

Title: The Century Gallery of 100 Portraits, Selected from The Century Magazine

Publisher: The Century Company

Engraver: Timothy Cole (American, London 1852–1931 Poughkeepsie, New York)

Engraver: T. Johnson (American, active 1880–90)

Engraver: R. A. Muller (American, active late 19th century)

Engraver: Henry Wolf (American (born France), Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852–1916 New York)

Engraver: William Baxter Palmer Closson (American, 1860–1930)

Engraver: G. Tietze (American, active 1880–1900)

Engraver: J. H. E. Whitney (American, active 1890–1900)

Sitter: George Washington (American, 1732–1799) (Plate I)

Sitter: William Cullen Bryant (American, 1794–1878) (plate II)

Sitter: William Dean Howells (American, 1837–1920)

Sitter: George Washington Cable (American, 1844–1925) (Plate IV)

Sitter: George Eliot (British, 1819–1880) (Plate V)

Sitter: Richard Wagner (German, Leipzig 1813–1883 Venice) (Plate VI)

Sitter: John Henry, Cardinal Newman (British, 1801–1890) (Plate VII)

Sitter: George William Curtis (American, 1824–1892) (Plate VIII)

Sitter: Florence Nightingale (British, 1820–1910) (Plate IX)

Sitter: Henry James (American, 1843–1916) (Plate X)

Sitter: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American, Portland, Maine 1807–1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts) (Plate XI)

Sitter: Alphonse Daudet (French, 1840–1897) (Plate XII)

Sitter: Helmuth von Moltke (German, Parchim, Mecklenburg 1800–1891 Berlin) (Plate XIII)

Sitter: Abraham Lincoln (American, Hardin County, Kentucky 1809–1865 Washington, D.C.) (Plate XIV)

Sitter: Major General Philip Henry Sheridan (American, Albany, New York 1831–1888 Nonquitt, Massachusetts) (Plate XV)

Sitter: William Tecumseh Sherman (American, Lancaster, Ohio 1820–1891 New York) (Plate XVI)

Sitter: Ralph Waldo Emerson (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1803–1882 Concord, Massachusetts) (Plate XVII)

Sitter: Daniel Webster (American, Salisbury, New Hampshire 1782–1852 Marshfield, Massachusetts) (Plate XVIII)

Sitter: Edward Everett Hale (American, 1822–1909) (Plate XIX)

Sitter: Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (British, Slough 1792–1871 Hawkhurst, Kent) (Plate XX)

Sitter: Giuseppe Verdi (Italian, 1813–1901) (Plate XXI)

Sitter: Franz Liszt (Hungarian, 1811–1886) (Plate XXIII)

Sitter: Nathaniel Hawthorne (American, Salem, Massachusetts 1804–1864 Plymouth, New Hampshire) (Plate XXIII)

Sitter: Harriet Beecher Stowe (American, 1811–1896) (Plate XXIV)

Sitter: Thomas Jefferson (American, 1743–1826) (Plate XXV)

Sitter: Julia Ward Howe (American, New York 1819–1910 Portsmouth, Rhode Island) (Plate XXVI)

Sitter: Leo Tolstoy (Russian, 1828–1910) (Plate XXVII)

Sitter: Washington Irving (American, New York 1783–1859 Sunnyside, New York) (Plate XXVIII)

Sitter: Walter Savage Landor (American, 1775–1864) (Plate XXIX)

Sitter: John Ruskin (British, London 1819–1900 Brantwood, Cumbria) (Plate XXX)

Sitter: Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris) (Plate XXXI)

Sitter: Pope Leo XIII (Italian, 1810–1903) (Plate XXXII)

Sitter: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière (French, 1622–1673) (Plate XXXIII)

Sitter: James Bryce (British, 1838–1922) (Plate XXXIV)

Sitter: Joseph Jefferson (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1829–1905 Palm Beach, Florida) (Plate XXXV)

Sitter: Madame la Marquise de Pompadour (French, Paris 1721–1764 Versailles) (Plate XXXVI)

Sitter: Sir Walter Besant (British, 1836–1901) (Plate XXXVII)

Sitter: John Burroughs (American, 1837–1921) (Plate XXXVIII)

Sitter: Germaine de Staël (French Swiss, Paris 1766–1817 Paris) (Plate XXXIX)

Sitter: Otto von Bismarck (German, 1815–1898) (Plate XL)

Sitter: Matthew Arnold (British, Laleham, Middlesex 1822–1888 Liverpool) (Plate XLI)

Sitter: Francis Parkman (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1823–1893 Boston, Massachusetts) (Plate XLII)

Sitter: Tommaso Salvini (Italian, 1829–1915) (Plate XLIII)

Sitter: John Greenleaf Whittier (American, Haverhill, Massachusetts 1807–1892 Hampton Falls, New Hampshire) (Plate XLIV)

Sitter: John Wilson of Ellerey [wrote as Christopher North] (British, Paisley, Scotland 1785–1854 Edinburgh) (Plate XLV)

Sitter: Charles-François Daubigny (French, Paris 1817–1878 Paris) (Plate XLVI)

Sitter: Percy Bysshe Shelley (British, Sussex 1792–1822 at sea, Italy) (Plate XXLVII)

Sitter: Antonín Leopold Dvorák (Czech, 1841–1904) (Plate XLVIII)

Sitter: James Russell Lowell (American, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1819–1891 Cambridge, Massachusetts) (Plate XLVIX)

Sitter: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian, 1756–1791) (Plate L)

Sitter: Charles-François Gounod (French, 1818–1893) (Plate LI)

Sitter: Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Polish, 1860–1941) (Plate LXII)

Sitter: Horace Greeley (American, 1811–1872) (Plate LIII)

Sitter: George Sand (French, Paris 1804–1876 Nohant) (Plate LIV)

Sitter: Robert Schumann (German, 1810–1856) (Plate LV)

Sitter: Robert Browning (British, London 1812–1889 Venice) (Plate LVI)

Sitter: Wihelm II, Emperor of Germany (1859–1941) (Plate LVII)

Sitter: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (American, 1836–1907) (Plate LVIII)

Artist: Benjamin Franklin (American, Boston 1706–1790 Philadelphia)

Sitter: Rudyard Kipling (British (born India), Bombay 1865–1936 Middlesex) (Plate LIX)

Sitter: George Inness (American, Newburgh, New York 1825–1894 Bridge of Allan, Scotland) (Plate LXII)

Sitter: Henry Clay (American, Hanover County, Virginia 1777–1852 Washington, D.C.) (Plate LXI)

Sitter: Joséphine Bonaparte (French, Trois-Îlets, Martinique 1763–1814 Malmaison) (Plate LXIII)

Sitter: Hermann von Helmholtz (German, 1821–1894) (Plate LXIV)

Sitter: Edwin Booth (American, 1833–1893) (Plate LXV)

Sitter: Edvard Grieg (Norwegian, 1843–1907) (Plate LXVI)

Sitter: Edmund Clarence Stedman (American, 1833–1908) (Plate LXVII)

Sitter: Louisa, Queen of Prussia (Hanover, 1776–1810) (Plate LXVIII)

Sitter: Silas Weir Mitchell (American, 1829–1914) (Plate LXIX)

Sitter: Queen Victoria (British, London 1819–1901 East Cowes, Isle of Wight) (Plate LXX)

Sitter: Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (American, Florida, Missouri 1835–1910 Hartford, Connecticut) (Plate LXXI)

Sitter: Alfred Tennyson (British, Somersby, Lincolnshire 1809–1892 Surrey) (Plate LXXII)

Sitter: John Marshall (American, 1755–1835) (Plate LXXIII)

Sitter: Phillips Brooks (American, 1835–1893) (Plate LXXIV)

Sitter: Sarah Siddons (British, Brecon, Wales 1755–1831 London) (Plate LXXV)

Sitter: Hans Von Bülow (German, 1830–1894) (Plate LXXVI)

Sitter: Andrew Lang (British, Selkirk, Scotland 1844–1912 Banchory) (Plate LXXVII)

Sitter: Eugénie, Empress of the French (1826–1920) (Plate LXXVIII)

Sitter: Jenny Lind (Swedish, Stockholm 1820–1887 Wynd's Point, Herefordshire) (Plate LXXIX)

Sitter: Grover Cleveland (American, 1837–1908) (Plate LXXX)

Sitter: William McKinley (American, 1843–1901) (Plate LXXXI)

Sitter: Girolamo Savonarola (Italian, 1452–1498) (Plate LXXXII)

Sitter: Thomas Carlyle (British, Annandale, Scotland 1795–1881 London) (Plate LXXXIV)

Sitter: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (American, 1841–1935) (Plate LXXXIII)

Sitter: William Ewart Gladstone (Plate LXXXV)

Sitter: Napoleon I (French, Ajaccio 1769–1821 St. Helena) (Plate LXXXVI)

Sitter: Ulysses S. Grant (American, Point Pleasant, Ohio 1822–1885 Mount McGregor, New York) (Plate LXXXVII)

Sitter: Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American, Dublin 1848–1907 Cornish, New Hampshire) (Plate LXXXVIII)

Sitter: Louis Pasteur (French, 1822–1895) (Plate XC)

Sitter: Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish, Edinburgh 1850–1894 Upolu, Samoa) (Plate XCI)

Sitter: Benoît-Constant Coquelin, known as Coquelin aîné (French, 1841–1909) (Plate LXXXIX)

Sitter: Peter Cooper (American, New York 1791–1883 New York) (Plate XCVI)

Sitter: Ivan Turgenev (Russian, Oryol 1818–1883 Bougival) (Plate XCVII)

Sitter: Eleanora Duse (Italian, 1858–1924) (Plate XCII)

Sitter: William Makepeace Thackeray (British (born India), Calcutta 1811–1863 London) (Plate XCIII)

Sitter: Robert Burns (British, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland 1759–1796 Dumfries) (Plate XCIV)

Sitter: Helena Modjeska (Polish, Krakow 1840–1909 Newport Beach, California) (Plate XCV)

Sitter: Jean-François Millet (French, Gruchy 1814–1875 Barbizon) (Plate XCIX)

Sitter: Frank Richard Stockton (American, 1834–1902) (Plate XCVIII)

Sitter: Christopher Columbus (Italian, Genoa 1446?–1506 Valladolid) (Plate C)

Date: 1897

Medium: Wood engraving and electrotype

Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 10 1/16 x 1 1/8 in. (35 x 25.5 x 2.8 cm)

Classification: Portfolios

Credit Line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2008

Object Number: 2008.195.3