General Zachary Taylor Rough and Ready 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Liberty Enlightening the World

Liberty Enlightening the World

The likeness carries the weariness of Appomattox and the unspoken charge of Reconstruction still ahead

the People's Choice for Vice President 1868 — a campaign portrait of the Indiana Speaker hoisted onto Grant's ticket

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the old sandstone dome still squat above a chamber where Clay

General Zachary Taylor Rough and Ready 1846 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Liberty Enlightening the WorldGeneral Zachary Taylor Rough and Ready 1846. A campaign ready portrait of the Mexican War's most quotable general, his nickname already doing the political work that would carry him to the White House two years later Manifest Destiny in epaulets, sketched while the cannon smoke over Palo Alto had barely cleared. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,