Henry Clay 1844 Size:18x24 Each nebula is engraved with

Each nebula is engraved with the reverence of a cartographer charting territories no ship could reach

A group portrait from the bruised years following Appomattox

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Abraham Lincoln

his face conscripted into the civic liturgy of a republic newly bloodied by another war

Henry Clay 1844 Size:18x24 Each nebula is engraved withHenry 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,