Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers Framed_Ford_Field Henry Clay 1844

Henry Clay 1844

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The Rosales Cigar Patent of 196 is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

and the long blue shadow of the Sangre de Cristos at dusk

rendered in the mournful lithographic idiom of a republic that sent its statesmen's children to die for Manifest Destiny and then engraved their last moments in elegy

Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers Framed_Ford_Field Henry Clay 1844Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers a battlefield lithograph from the Mexican War, mourning the Great Compromiser's son fallen at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its private debts and a Kentucky regiment learned what the rhetoric of expansion actually cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,