Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century Size:18x24 It is the firmament rendered

It is the firmament rendered as both cathedral and calculation

rendered in the dignified line of an antebellum engraving — epaulets

Grant 1892 — a posthumous likeness of the general-turned-president issued seven years after his death

America 1671 — a cartographic glance backward to a continent still half-rumor

a tableau where Emma Lazarus's huddled masses and the machine age share the same patch of sky

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century Size:18x24 It is the firmament renderedAbraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century a portrait of the rail splitter turned wartime executive, his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself, rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men whose decisions were measured in regiments and graves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional