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Æsopus by Diego Velásquez, 1739-40.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich at the age of 32
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William Allen (1532-1594) / Photo © ÖNB/Wien

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)

Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)

Source: "Matthew Arnold", by G. W. E. Russell (Project Gutenberg)

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George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)

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Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted this and T. A. Dean made the engraving

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Source: "The New Student's Reference Work" (1914)

Frontispiece Portrait from Lorna Doone, 1900 edition.

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Fresco by Andrea del Castagno (c. 1450)

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Source: "Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women
in Europe and America," by Evert A. Duyckinick
(New York, 1873)
(colored by Jan Arkesteijn)

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Image © ÖNB/Wien

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Photo circa 1855-1865
(Brady-Handy Photograph Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-DIG-cwpbh-02728)

From Wikimedia Commons

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Clara Louise Root Burnham (1854-1927) Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.

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Alexander Campbell (clergyman) at Age 65. Frontispiece from Richardson, Robert. Memoirs of Alexander Campbell, vol.1, Lippincott, 1869.

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Source: "Great Britain and Her Queen,"
by Anne E. Keeling (1897)
(Project Gutenberg)

by David Octavius Hill, 1843, from the National Galleries of Scotland, on Flickr.com

Sculpture by Julius Moser.
Credit: Mutter Erde (Wikipedia user), 2007, Berlin, Germany

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Photo courtesy of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University.

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Engravings of British Methodist clergy collection, Pitts Library, Emory University

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Source: "Little journeys to the homes of the great",
by Elbert Hubbard, v. 5 (New York : 1916)
(Project Gutenberg)

Daguerreotype, 1850, by Matthew Brady
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public domain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cowper_w.jpg

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Credit: Zaida Ben-Yusuf, circa 1900
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-83072)

Sculpture by David d'Angers, 1833
(Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2006)

Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Juan de Jáuregui.
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Cropped from "I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station" by James Montgomery Flagg. Wikimedia Commons.