Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 Size:18x24 Emancipation Proclamation 1864

Emancipation Proclamation 1864

rendered with the studied gravity of a Democrat trying to outlast the Panic of '37 and the Whig knives already sharpening for 1840

the same sober face hardened by the long arithmetic of the years between

uncomplicated

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Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 Size:18x24 Emancipation Proclamation 1864Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 a congressional portrait of the Accomack firebrand whose tongue could lash a chamber into silence, rendered in the formal lithographic hand reserved for men the Capitol had learned to fear and quote in equal measure. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic