Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 grand central art architectural drawings

architectural drawings

smokestack diplomacy made flesh in epaulets and braid

sketched while the cannon smoke over Palo Alto had barely cleared

and even the simplest tool was worth a draftsman's afternoon

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 — the year Uncle Tom's Cabin left the printing press and entered the bloodstream of a divided republic

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1848 grand central art architectural drawingsHenry Clay of Kentucky 1848 a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser in the year of his last bid for the Whig nomination, his Senate floor thunder rendered into lithographed gravity. The face of a man who held the Union together by clauses and concessions, drawn as his era of brokered peace was already cracking. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,