Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame Steel Wings Over Manhattan Vintage

Steel Wings Over Manhattan Vintage Military Aviation Print — a martial tableau of warbirds banking above the spired skyline

elevated from the Custom House to the White House by Garfield's assassin's bullet

the martyred president had hardened into bronze and reverent line work — this 1920 likeness belongs to the long aftermath

" rendered in the heavy-browed gravity nineteenth-century engravers reserved for men who governed by edict and answered to Lincoln alone

and cattle towns where the Main Street is mostly sky

Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame Steel Wings Over Manhattan VintageAbraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 19th Century a presidential portrait rendered in the gaunt, hollow eyed manner the engravers favored late, when the war had carved his face into something closer to scripture than likeness, the Union's reluctant prophet staring past the viewer toward a country still tearing itself open. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,