General Grant 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame in an age already retreating

in an age already retreating from Reconstruction's promises

this is the founding document of the United States — the words Jefferson wrote

this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

Old Bullion himself

and the steady gaze of an officer who had outlived the War of 1812 to become its living monument

General Grant 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame in an age already retreatingGeneral Grant 1885 a likeness rendered in the year the old commander laid down his pen at Mount McGregor, finishing the memoirs that would outlive him by weeks. The lithograph belongs to that strange register of mourning portraiture, where a soldier becomes scripture before the ink has dried. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical