William Buel Franklin, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap as if to remind the

as if to remind the viewer what the war was actually for

an immigrant Babel pressed into the bones of Lower Manhattan

19th Century — a portrait of the physician-turned-artisan who taught a young republic to print pictures from boxwood

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

The scene hums with the swaggering mercantile din of a city teaching the century how to hurry

William Buel Franklin, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap as if to remind theWilliam Buel Franklin, 19th Century a portrait of the Union general whose star rose at West Point and dimmed at Fredericksburg, his Left Grand Division swallowed by the slaughter below Marye's Heights. The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National