Last Moments of Washington 1864 Size:36x24 Fruit of Freedom 1858 arrives

Fruit of Freedom 1858 arrives on the eve of the storm

drawn with the patience of someone who knew a clogged groove could cost a stroke

Charles Sumner 1874 — a likeness of the Massachusetts senator rendered in the year of his death

Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes

Celestial Mechanics of the Wandering Gods traces the looping pilgrimages of the planets — those ancient wanderers the Greeks called planētes — across a Victorian plate where Mars

Last Moments of Washington 1864 Size:36x24 Fruit of Freedom 1858 arrivesLast Moments of Washington 1864 a deathbed lithograph circulated as the republic he founded was busy unmaking itself, Mount Vernon's quiet chamber pressed into service as moral ballast for a country desperate to remember what it had been before Antietam and Gettysburg. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the