Aaron Burr, Third Vice President of the United States, 1836 Size:18x24 Raphael Semmes of the Confederate

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama

Arrives ready to hang — no framing required

the spires of Trinity and the early towers of Wall Street rising behind like the counting-house cathedrals of a republic still tallying its fortune

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

rich and historically grounded

Aaron Burr, Third Vice President of the United States, 1836 Size:18x24 Raphael Semmes of the ConfederateAaron Burr, Third Vice President of the United States, 1836 a posthumous portrait of the republic's most unrepentant heretic, issued the year of his death, when the duelist of Weehawken and would be emperor of the Southwest had finally outlived the scandal long enough to be engraved into office. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical