Abraham Lincoln When Twenty One, Elected President When Fifty One Size:24x36 The Declaration of Independence and

The Declaration of Independence and Portraits of the Presidents 1861-1865 binds Jefferson's founding sentences to the careworn faces of Lincoln's wartime cabinet

rendered here as a Victorian cosmography where the firmament is given an axis and God

and presidents arrayed in the steel-point manner of the parlor album

confident in a union not yet asked to prove itself

Grant 1872 — a campaign broadside for the general's reelection

Abraham Lincoln When Twenty One, Elected President When Fifty One Size:24x36 The Declaration of Independence andAbraham Lincoln When Twenty One, Elected President When Fifty One a paired portrait study tracing the rail splitter's three decades from frontier youth to the man who would inherit a fracturing Union, the same sober face hardened by the long arithmetic of the years between. 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