Abraham Lincoln 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap her hull already a relic

her hull already a relic by the time this 1896 study was struck

the face a country looked to while it tore itself toward emancipation

shifting bottom — screw-pile footings splayed across the page like spider legs

exactly who salutes whom

regimental colors arranged with the cool taxonomy of a plate that knew these banners had already passed from rallying cry into relic

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap her hull already a relicAbraham Lincoln 19th Century a portrait study of the wartime president, his gaunt features rendered in the grave register reserved for men who carried a fracturing republic on their shoulders. The lithographer's hand lingers on the eyes, where the weight of Antietam and Gettysburg seems already inscribed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional