Description | English: Self-portrait of Swedish illustrator C. Axel Goës |
Date | 1900 |
Source | Boktryckeri-Kalender 1900 (https://archive.org/details/boktryckeri-kalender-1900-01zachrisson/page/124/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | C. Axel Goës |
Category Archives: Portraits
Horace
Description | English: Frontispiece to Bentley’s translation of Horace, 1713 |
Date | 1713 |
Source | The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace (https://archive.org/details/odesepodescarmen01hora/page/n3/mode/2up) |
Author | Simon Gribelin |
Lucretius

Description | English: Lucretius pointing to the casus, the downward movement of the atoms, from the frontispiece of a 1714 edition of Thomas Creech’s translation of Lucretius |
Date | 1714 |
Source | T. Lucretius Carus of the Nature of Things (https://archive.org/details/tlucretiuscaruso01lucr/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Designed by “T. C.” (possibly Thomas Creech, died 1700); drawn and engraved by M. Burghers |
Charles Anthon

Description | English: Portrait of Charles Anthon from a photograph by Mathew Brady |
Date | 1867 |
Source | Harper’s Weekly (https://archive.org/details/harpersweeklyv11bonn/page/525/mode/1up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous engraver from an original photograph by Mathew Brady |
Ovid

Description | English: Frontispiece to an edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses |
Date | 1889 (from plate engraved earlier) |
Source | The Metamorphoses of Ovid (https://archive.org/details/metamorphosesofo00ovid_0/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Pierre-Philippe Choffard, artist; J. J. Hinchcliffe, engraver |
Ida M. Tarbell

Description | English: Ida Tarbell, from an advertisement in McClure’s Magazine |
Date | 1909 |
Source | McClure’s Magazine (https://archive.org/details/McCluresMagazineV34n01190911/page/n27/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Alma Gluck, by Maurice Goldberg
Description | English: Portrait of Alma Gluck by photographer Maurice Goldberg |
Date | 1920 |
Source | Shadowland (https://archive.org/details/Shadowland0212Images/page/n53/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Maurice Goldberg |
William Shakespeare Hart, by Bécan
Description | English: Caricature of William S. Hart, by Bécan (SVG adaptation) |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Cinéa (https://archive.org/details/cina22pari/page/n431/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Bécan |
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Ernest Dowson, by Leo Kober

Description | English: Portrait of Ernest Dowson by Leo Kober |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Shadowland (https://archive.org/details/shadowland07brew/page/n273/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Leo Kober |
Bill Hart, by James Montgomery Flagg

Description | English: Bill Hart, by James Montgomery Flagg, drawn from the life by Mr. Flagg especially for Photoplay Magazine |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n535/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | James Montgomery Flagg |