The Last Moments of John Brown Leaving the Jail on the Morning of His Execution 1859 era-civil_war William Costin

William Costin

sash and drum slung against a frame too small for the war he marched into

Montana arrives in lithographed views of the Big Sky country — Glacier's chiseled peaks

or the cork was the difference between a shipment that arrived intact and one that didn't

Our reproduction is taken from the engrossed parchment held at the National Archives

The Last Moments of John Brown Leaving the Jail on the Morning of His Execution 1859 era-civil_war William CostinThe Last Moments of John Brown Leaving the Jail on the Morning of His Execution 1859 a martyr's tableau staged at the threshold between cell and gallows, the Charles Town morning rendered with the gravity of an abolitionist icon already passing into legend. The lithograph reads less as reportage than as prophecy, the country listening for the war John Brown swore was coming. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American