Portrait Rondels of Famous Men and Women

Multiple artists/makers

1820–50

Not on view

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Title: Portrait Rondels of Famous Men and Women
Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century
Sitter: Marquis de Lafayette (French, 1757–1834)
Sitter: François-Marie Arouet (French, Paris 1694–1778 Paris)
Sitter: Simón Bolívar (Venezuelan, Caracas 1783–1830 Santa Marta, Gran Colombia (Colombia))
Sitter: Germaine de Staël (French Swiss, Paris 1766–1817 Paris)
Sitter: Anne Françoise Hyppolyte Boutet Salvetat (French, Paris 1779–1847 Paris)
Sitter: George Washington (American, 1732–1799)
Sitter: Sir Walter Scott (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1771–1832 Abbotsford, Scotland)
Sitter: Jean-Pierre Boyer (Haitian, Port-au-Prince 1776–1850 Paris)
Sitter: Benjamin West (American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London)
Sitter: François-Joseph Talma (French, Paris 1763–1826 Paris)
Sitter: Washington Irving (American, New York 1783–1859 Sunnyside, New York)
Sitter: François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon (French, Château de Fénelon, Périgord 1651–1715 Cambrai)
Sitter: George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron (British, London 1788–1824 Missolonghi)
Date: 1820–50
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 13/16 × 16 13/16 in. (27.5 × 42.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883
Object Number: 83.2.1026
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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