Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art an engraving where the terminator

an engraving where the terminator becomes theology — that trembling line where lunar day surrenders to lunar night

The Depp Apparatus Patent for the Extraction of Spirits comes from an era when the distiller was half-engineer

Grant at the Capture of the City of Mexico — a documentary engraving of the young lieutenant amid the smoke of 1847

two old Whigs offering Union and Constitution as a last incantation against the storm already gathering at Charleston and Montgomery

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art an engraving where the terminatorDeath of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 memorializes the fall of Samuel Ringgold at Palo Alto, where the mobile cannon he had drilled into doctrine outlived him by an afternoon. The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning Manifest Destiny pausing, briefly, to bury its first martyr. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,