Death of John Quincy Adams at the U.S. Capitol, Feby 23d 1848 simple xmas tree Offering a Perfect Balance of

Offering a Perfect Balance of Subtlety and Style

Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose famously emphatic whiskers gave the language a word

all explorer's bearing and free-soil conviction

the year significant — a republic still arranging its dead into legend

The Body of the Martyr President Abraham Lincoln Lying in State at City Hall

Death of John Quincy Adams at the U.S. Capitol, Feby 23d 1848 simple xmas tree Offering a Perfect Balance ofDeath of John Quincy Adams at the U. S. Capitol, Feby 23d 1848. The old man eloquent collapsed at his desk in the House chamber, felled mid debate over the Mexican War, and this lithograph gathers the colleagues around him with the hushed theatricality reserved for a republic losing one of its last living links to the Founding. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the