Steamboats Passing at Midnight on Long Island Sound - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 The face of a man

The face of a man who had thundered "On to Richmond" in print and now had to reckon with what that ink had cost

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the swaggering grammar of Manifest Destiny

Imposing the Cardinal's Berretta Upon His Grace Archbishop McCloskey of New York

and the long American habit of mistaking momentum for destiny

Steamboats Passing at Midnight on Long Island Sound - Vintage Maritime Print Size:24x36 The face of a manSteamboats Passing at Midnight on Long Island Sound Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph drunk on lamplight and coal smoke, where two paddlewheel giants slip past one another on the black glass of the Sound, their saloon windows burning gold against a sky the color of wet ink. The kind of Gilded Age scene that turned the night run between New York and Stonington into a floating cathedral. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations