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Daniel Webster gives his famous 'Second Reply to Hayne' on 27 January 1830 during the Webster-Hayne debate, painting by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1851. Great Hall at Faneuil Hall, Boston.

Malvolio and the Countess, depicting a famous scene from William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night, in which the puritanical servant Malvolio is tricked into coming before Lady Olivia cross-gartered and in yellow stockings. Oil on canvas...

Olaudah Equiano (l. c. 1745-1797), the abolitionist writer, by the English artist Daniel Orme (l. 1766-1837), frontispiece of Equiano's autobiography (published 1789).

British General John Burgoyne surrenders his entire army to American General Horatio Gates on 19 October 1777 at the end of the Saratoga Campaign. Depicted figures include General Burgoyne (left) who offers his sword to Horatio Gates (center...

Senator Daniel Webster delivers his famous reply to Senator Robert Y. Hayne on 27 January 1830, at the climax of the Webster-Hayne debate, illustration from 363 of The political history of the United States by James Penny Boyd, 1888. Library...

A portrait of Peggy Shippen, the second wife of Benedict Arnold, with one of their children, oil on canvas by Daniel Gardner, c. 1780s. Philadelphia History Museum.

A 1677 portrait by Daniel Schultz of Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), the Polish astronomer. (Library of Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdańsk)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, and Jodhi May in The Last of the Mohicans (1992). Photo by Morgan Creek Productions The movie is set in 1757 during the French and Indian War.

A 1621 portrait of James I of England (r. 1603-1625) by Daniel Mytens. The king is wearing the insignia of the Order of the Garter. National Portrait Gallery, London.

A 1910 oil on canvas self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Aged 69 at the time, this was the final self-portrait the artist painted. (Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris)