In Memory of Indianapolis 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap An astronomical lithograph for the

An astronomical lithograph for the contemplative hour

and his march back to Virginia under federal bayonets

over how a new nation should introduce itself to the world

and the avenues drawn in the bold optimism of an architect who believed the future would be built

Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1899 — a posthumous portrait of the Supreme Court Justice whose dissent in Dred Scott broke ranks and whose name was thereafter spoken with the weight of a man who chose conscience over comity

In Memory of Indianapolis 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap An astronomical lithograph for theIn Memory of Indianapolis 19th Century gathers the civic pride of a Hoosier capital coming into its own courthouse spires, Monument Circle in the making, the orderly grids of a Midwestern city composing itself in the long quiet after Appomattox. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier