General Grant 1885 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Mädler Delusion — Victorian

The Mädler Delusion — Victorian Dreams of a Cosmic Heart charts Johann Mädler's lovely heresy — the conviction that the Pleiades

1840 — a campaign lithograph that turns a 1811 frontier skirmish into Whig mythology

The Gentlemans Vanity Patent for the Whisker Shield is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

and river bends rendered in soft linen ink

It is an orrery flattened onto paper — Victorian astronomy at its most devotional

General Grant 1885 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Mädler Delusion — VictorianGeneral Grant 1885 a likeness rendered in the year the old commander laid down his pen at Mount McGregor, finishing the memoirs that would outlive him by weeks. The lithograph belongs to that strange register of mourning portraiture, where a soldier becomes scripture before the ink has dried. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical