Abraham Lincoln With Malice Toward None With Charity for All Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Washington as a Mason 1867

Washington as a Mason 1867 renders the first president in full Masonic regalia — apron

the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending

and asked to mean something again

General Grant 1885 — a likeness rendered in the final year of the old commander's life

his likeness rendered in the careful gravity reserved for those who carried Manifest Destiny's confidence and its rot in equal measure

Abraham Lincoln With Malice Toward None With Charity for All Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Washington as a Mason 1867Abraham Lincoln With Malice Toward None With Charity for All the closing cadence of the Second Inaugural set against Lincoln's gaunt likeness, words spoken in March 1865 to a country still bleeding, already reaching past vengeance toward a reconciliation he would not live to see. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and