Last Moments of Washington 1864 Size:36x24 the Bavarian

the Bavarian

Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes

where wrought-iron fire escapes stack tenement facades like opera tiers above the awnings and hand-lettered signs

It is a plate from the age when Leverrier could conjure Neptune from arithmetic alone

barely a year on her pedestal

Last Moments of Washington 1864 Size:36x24 the BavarianLast Moments of Washington 1864 a deathbed lithograph circulated as the republic he founded was busy unmaking itself, Mount Vernon's quiet chamber pressed into service as moral ballast for a country desperate to remember what it had been before Antietam and Gettysburg. 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