Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents

his likeness drawn from the lithographer's deliberate hand nearly two decades after emancipation — an assertion

Wyoming arrives in lithographed wide-open: Yellowstone geysers mid-plume

his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself

The Veiled Wanderer Venus in Her Celestial Masquerade — a Victorian astronomical plate that renders our sister planet not as a body but as a costumed mystery

Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap A campaign portrait of theColumbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 an allegorical chromolithograph in which the Republic herself, laurel in hand, anoints the victor of Manila Bay. Empire dressed in classical drapery, the bravado of a young world power decorating its newest god of war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,