Abraham Lincoln 1918 Size:18x24 New York NYC arrives as

New York NYC arrives as a skyline in miniature — linen postcards of the Flatiron's prow

19th Century — a portrait of the man dispatched from a peninsula still half-wilderness

a posthumous likeness rendered in the iconography of national mourning — the martyred president recast in printmaker's ink for a country still arguing over what his death was supposed to have settled

and the natural patina of a document that has lived for nearly two hundred and fifty years

The Astronomer's Deception a Study in Celestial Illusions is a Victorian plate that confesses what its colleagues would not — that the eye at the eyepiece is a liar

Abraham Lincoln 1918 Size:18x24 New York NYC arrives asAbraham Lincoln 1918 a Great War era remembrance of the martyred president, his likeness summoned again as a republic mobilizing for Europe reached back to the man who had once held it together, asking the iron face of the Union to bless a second, sterner century. 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