Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art This Mary Jane Art Nouveau

This Mary Jane Art Nouveau portrait blends vintage botanical motifs with a warm

The lithograph carries the careful gravity of Gilded Age politics

and the studies of people who keep a bottle of rye on the shelf for the right occasion

the French-born merchant who once bankrolled a young republic now rendered in the sober tones of Jacksonian-era engraving

Every brace and disc foundation is drawn with the patience of a man who knew the Florida reef takes ships the way salt takes iron

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art This Mary Jane Art NouveauSatan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear, the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission, ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional