General Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista 1847 speakeasy wall art The Gentlemans Ritual — Stelton

The Gentlemans Ritual — Stelton Shaving Brush Patent comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

A scene that hums with the particular electricity of a midtown crowd convinced it stands at the center of the modern world

The print arranges blood and powder into legible geometry

arranging pontiffs and presidents into a single devotional grid for the immigrant parlors of a republic still negotiating its post-war soul

rendered with the formal gravity owed to a Gilded Age executive who inherited the office in mourning and surprised the republic by governing better than it expected

General Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista 1847 speakeasy wall art The Gentlemans Ritual — SteltonGeneral Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista 1847 renders Old Rough and Ready astride the Mexican highlands, where outnumbered American volunteers held Santa Anna's columns and turned a desperate February stand into the lithograph that would carry Zachary Taylor straight to the White House. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical