1836 — a posthumous portrait of the republic's most unrepentant heretic
his features softened by half a century of national mythmaking
or a cigarette deserved an apparatus designed and patented for its proper handling
Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century — a portrait of the Philadelphia physician-turned-playwright whose Jacksonian-era dramas and frontier novels gave the antebellum stage its taste for blood
the others orbiting him like satellites of a defeated star
Death of Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th 1813 (1841) framed sports art 1836 — a posthumous portraitDeath of Tecumseh, Battle of the Thames, Oct 5th 1813 (1841) a documentary engraving issued nearly three decades after the Shawnee confederacy collapsed in the Ontario mud, rendering the fallen war chief at the moment American expansion required him to become legend rather than adversary. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical