His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 grit_artwork The Celestial Orrery a Lecture

The Celestial Orrery a Lecture on the Heavenly Spheres unfolds like a parlor sermon in brass and ink — concentric orbits wheeling around a small

rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington

drawn up as the republic neared its hundredth year and reached back to its founder for ballast

distressed black frame

the careworn face that bore Antietam and Gettysburg softened here by the parlor's quieter gravity

His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 grit_artwork The Celestial Orrery a LectureHis Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875. A devotional portrait of the first American to wear the red hat, rendered in the formal idiom of post war ecclesiastical printmaking biretta, pectoral cross, and the steady gaze of a prelate whose elevation marked the Catholic arrival in a Protestant republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National