Distribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York Victoria_BC_Canada The likeness carries the hard

The likeness carries the hard set of an officer who answered for Kentucky

In Memoriam 1878

mourning rendered as martial dignity in the long aftermath of the war he survived

The lithograph carries the careful gravity of Gilded Age politics

when the duelist of Weehawken and would-be emperor of the Southwest had finally outlived the scandal long enough to be engraved into office

Distribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York Victoria_BC_Canada The likeness carries the hardDistribution of the American Art Union Prizes at the Tabernacle, Broadway, New York a documentary engraving of the lottery night when subscribers crowded the great Broadway hall to learn which canvases fortune had assigned them, the Art Union's democratic experiment in culture playing out by drawn ticket and gaslight. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National