Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:24x18 Attorney — a draftsman-lawyer's attempt

Attorney — a draftsman-lawyer's attempt to render the Republic legible

Abraham Lincoln 1860 — the prairie lawyer rendered on the eve of his improbable ascent

when soldiering was still half pageantry and the ledger of casualties had barely opened

An engraved tribute to the Scottish-born commodore styled in Latin as fleet commander

where a soldier becomes scripture before the ink has dried

Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:24x18 Attorney — a draftsman-lawyer's attemptDiscovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 a documentary engraving steeped in the heroic mode, casting the Spaniard and his armored retinue at the riverbank as if conquest were a sacrament. The composition treats a contested arrival as revelation, the Mississippi rendered less as geography than as inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of