Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:36x24 decades before Appomattox would rewrite

decades before Appomattox would rewrite his name

well-mannered pride

Designed for history lovers

carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale

and the ordinary geometry of municipal life

Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:36x24 decades before Appomattox would rewriteDiscovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 a documentary engraving steeped in the heroic mode, casting the Spaniard and his armored retinue at the riverbank as if conquest were a sacrament. The composition treats a contested arrival as revelation, the Mississippi rendered less as geography than as inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of