History of Congress, biographical and political: comprising memoirs of members of the Congress of the United States, etc
Henry Godfrey Wheeler's History of Congress, biographical and political, published in 1848, collects memoirs of United States congressmen for an American reading and political public. The plates are steel-engraved half-length portraits of seated or standing men in dark frock coats, stocks and bow ties, worked in fine cross-hatching against smoky vignetted grounds, useful for period faces, engraved tonal texture and portrait frames.
