Steamboat Peter Crary on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame Battle of Fair Oaks

Battle of Fair Oaks

rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men whose decisions were measured in regiments and graves

a swing frozen mid-arc

its allegorical figures and clasped hands rendered with the embellished gravity that Gilded Age chromolithography reserved for brotherhoods promising more than the factory floor would

and anyone drawn to Victorian industrial design

Steamboat Peter Crary on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Ebony Frame Battle of Fair OaksSteamboat Peter Crary on the Hudson River Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph in the antebellum river packet tradition, the Peter Crary churns her paddlewheel through Hudson chop with smokestacks plumed and decks crowded, the Palisades rising behind her like a stage flat. It's a tableau from the brief, glorious heyday when steam, river, and commerce moved as one current. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American