Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century Size:24x18 William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 —

William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 — a portrait of the general a dozen years after Atlanta

The bravado is loud

his bearded steadiness rendered in the engraver's deliberate cross-hatching

when the sixteenth president's gaunt features were studied as closely as battlefield maps

1840 — a campaign lithograph that turns a 1811 frontier skirmish into Whig mythology

Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century Size:24x18 William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 —Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century a romantic engraving of the conquistador's 1519 arrival at Tenochtitln, rendered in that distinctly Victorian appetite for spectacle, where horses, banners, and Aztec emissaries are arranged less as history than as theater dressed in the costume of empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional