the United States' First Ambassador at the Court of France — an engraved homage to the bespectacled printer who arrived at Versailles in fur cap and plain cloth
ruled and ornamented for the careful entry of names and dates — the parlor-wall arithmetic of grief
when photography and lithography were enlisted in the slow
rendering the brothers as paired saints of a faith driven westward
his rumpled collar and spectacled stare rendered in the engraver's careful hatchwork
Encampment of Gen. Pope's Army Before Corinth, May 1862 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the United States' First AmbassadorEncampment of Gen. Pope's Army Before Corinth, May 1862. A documentary engraving of the Union siege lines drawn tight around the Mississippi rail junction, where John Pope's tents bloomed across the fields in the slow, methodical weeks before Beauregard slipped away in the night. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and