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Painting by Sandro Botticelli (c. 1495)

Roman Marble, Imperial Period (2nd or 3rd Century). Photo by Eric Gaba / Wikimedia Commons.

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.

William Edmondstoune Aytoun engraved by J.C. Armytage from a bust by Patrick Park. Frontispiece from Memoir of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1867).

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Fresco by Andrea del Castagno (c. 1450)

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Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin

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Frontispiece of the book, The Book-Hunter, by John Holl Burton, 1882 edition

Credit: C.S. Harris, 1895 (Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, LoC Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-5957)

Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
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Photograph by Oskar Gustav Rejlander, 1863.
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Cavalcanti and Dante

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Engraving by Edward Scriven (1821) after portrait by William Hilton (1820)

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Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
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Self-portrait, 1498,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
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Southworth & Hawes

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Frederick James Furnivall. Wikimedia Commons.

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) Self portrait, etching (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

From the book, The Book-Hunter in London, by W. Roberts, 1895 edition

Engraving by Robert White (1674)

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Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
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Leigh Hunt at an early age. Frontispiece of the book, Men, women and Books, by Leigh Hunt, published in 1847.

Scenes from Adomnan's Life of St. Columba. Image from the Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 1042 (A size))

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from the collection of Catherine Lane Poole Dupre

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abbottthomas

Source: "The world's best poetry," v. 3
(Philadelphia, 1904)
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Photo while Minister to the United Kingdom, 1880-1885
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Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik

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Elliott & Fry

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Portrait of Sebastian Münster by Christoph Amberger, c. 1552

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Copyrighted by J.E. Purdy, 1903
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Selfportrait, 1847, National Portrait Gallery, London (Public domain ; Wikipedia)

Source: "Little Journeys To the Homes of
Good Men and Great" by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
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Photo by Félix Nadar, 1864

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From "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century"
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Self Portrait. Public domain

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