Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 Size:18x24 Death of Tecumseh

Death of Tecumseh

uncomplicated

The image carries that pivot: a republic deciding to try again

and the brick canyons of Market Street where penny postcards once moved faster than the trolleys

his likeness drawn from the years when temperance pieties and Indian Removal debates shared the same Senate floor

Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 Size:18x24 Death of TecumsehHenry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 a congressional portrait of the Accomack firebrand whose tongue could lash a chamber into silence, rendered in the formal lithographic hand reserved for men the Capitol had learned to fear and quote in equal measure. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic