Group of 17 carte-de-visite portraits of noteworthy figures of the 19th century, including a combination of real photographs and images of artworks portraying the notables. Subjects include: Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Peter Cooper, Charles Gounod, William E. Gladstone, Benito Juarez, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Benjamin Disraeli, William Lloyd Garrison, Louis Agassiz, Cardinal John Henry Newman, Gustave Dore, Lajos Kossuth, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Napoleon Bonaparte (illustration), Robert E. Lee (illustration), and Horatio Nelson (illustration). In overall fine condition, with clipped corners to the Gounod photo.
