General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 framed eclipse art 1840 — a campaign lithograph

1840 — a campaign lithograph that turns a 1811 frontier skirmish into Whig mythology

Whether taken before Appomattox or after

his likeness reissued at the very moment Wall Street was learning the scale of its own ambitions

it reads as both roster and elegy

Times — a scene drawn from the electric crossroads where Broadway bends into Seventh

General Ulysses S. Grant 1865 framed eclipse art 1840 — a campaign lithographGeneral Ulysses S. Grant, 1865. A portrait of the Union's blunt instrument at the precise hinge of his fame Appomattox barely cooled, the cigar still lit, the quiet man in the field coat suddenly the most consequential soldier in the republic. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier &