George Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch Frame Style:Ebony Frame the broad symmetry of Temple

the broad symmetry of Temple Square

the Soldiers and Sailors monument anchoring linen panoramas of Meridian Street

Quincy Adams Gillmore

the republic's familiar pantheon arranged shoulder to shoulder as if convened for a single sober daguerreotype of national memory

the war two decades behind him and the pen still moving

George Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch Frame Style:Ebony Frame the broad symmetry of TempleGeorge Washington and the Spy Harvey Birch a literary engraving drawn from Cooper's The Spy, pairing the General with the peddler informant who walked the neutral ground of Westchester. The plate trades in the quieter mythology of the Revolution: the war won as much by whispered intelligence as by powder. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional