Henry Clay 1844 Size:18x24 A group portrait from the

A group portrait from the bruised years following Appomattox

The engraver renders gravity as gospel

Abraham Lincoln

a memorial lithograph issued in the stunned weeks after Ford's Theatre

the war scarcely a month old

Henry Clay 1844 Size:18x24 A group portrait from theHenry Clay 1844. A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser in the year his third bid for the presidency faltered against Polk and the gathering tide of annexation Clay rendered in the steady gravity of Whig lithography, a statesman of the Senate caught at the threshold of a country choosing expansion over caution. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,