The American portrait gallery. With biographical sketches of presidents, statesmen, military and naval heroes, clergymen, authors, poets, etc., etc
A nineteenth-century American biographical gallery published in New York in 1877 by J.C. Buttre, with sketches of presidents, statesmen, soldiers, naval officers, clergymen and writers for a general readership. Its pictures are steel-engraved and lithographed head-and-shoulders portraits of individual men, mostly in formal dress or military uniform, set against plain or shaded grounds, offering a designer examples of dignified period portrait composition, tonal hatching and vignette framing.
