George Gordon Meade, 19th Century framed cosmos print Each plate burns at the

Each plate burns at the seam where heliography met natural theology — the firmament as furnace

its lantern room hovering above the shoals like a held breath

An astronomical lithograph for the contemplative hour

the republic he left behind already industrializing past recognition

shipwrecks

George Gordon Meade, 19th Century framed cosmos print Each plate burns at theGeorge Gordon Meade, 19th Century. The victor of Gettysburg rendered in the sober tonalities of a 19th century portrait engraving beard, epaulets, and the unsmiling gaze of a man who held the high ground in July of 1863 and understood, perhaps too well, what the holding had cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and