George Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch Frame Style:Ebony Frame A bird's-eye lithograph in the

A bird's-eye lithograph in the civic idiom of the late Gilded Age — every church spire and rail siding accounted for

Washington Grand Eastern Stairway to the Gallery of the House of Representatives

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

the Soldiers and Sailors monument anchoring linen panoramas of Meridian Street

Manhattan Rising: A Gilded View From the Park looks south across Central Park's tree line as the young skyline shoulders upward — a Gilded Age tableau in which the Plaza's chimneys and the first towers of Fifth Avenue announce a city rehearsing its own ambition

George Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch Frame Style:Ebony Frame A bird's-eye lithograph in theGeorge Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch a literary engraving drawn from Cooper's The Spy, pairing the General with the peddler informant who walked the neutral ground of Westchester. The plate trades in the quieter mythology of the Revolution: the war won as much by whispered intelligence as by powder. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional