Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States 1835 framed president art rendered with the studied gravity

rendered with the studied gravity of a Democrat trying to outlast the Panic of '37 and the Whig knives already sharpening for 1840

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The Broadway Line Gilded Age Street Scene moves at the cadence of a horsecar clattering past plate-glass storefronts and gaslit awnings

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Henry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States 1835 framed president art rendered with the studied gravityHenry Clay Nominated for Eleventh President of the United States, 1835. A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig ascendancy, the Kentucky senator rendered with the studied dignity of a man certain the presidency was his a certainty the electorate would, again, decline to share. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional