George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha Frame Style:Canvas Wrap a likeness rendered in the

a likeness rendered in the sober tonal register of a country already acquainted with casualty lists

guiding mariners along a single trustworthy bearing into safe water

its tents and barracks pitched against the long arithmetic of casualty lists

Armory of First City Troop

the cartographer's confidence betraying a country measuring itself against its own appetite for expansion

George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha Frame Style:Canvas Wrap a likeness rendered in theGeorge Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Eleanor Parke Custis, Martha. A domestic portrait of the first family at Mount Vernon, the General rendered not as commander but as guardian of his wife's grandchildren the household tableau by which a young republic learned to picture its founder. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional