Death of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 stettheimer poster all sash and slogan and

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

rendered in the wistful idiom of a lithograph that knew it was already documenting a place lost to its own ambition

Printed on heavyweight archival paper and hand-finished in our Pacific Northwest studio

more than any other

a founder transmuted by the burin into national memory

Death of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 stettheimer poster all sash and slogan andDeath of Adjutant General George S. Lincoln 1847 a mournful documentary engraving from the Mexican War, fixing the moment a Massachusetts officer fell at Buena Vista. The plate carries the somber arithmetic of Manifest Destiny: a republic counting its dead in the ledger of expansion. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,