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The sheet belongs to the long mourning that followed Guiteau's shot

the kind of plate that once made Victorian astronomers feel they were reading God's own marginalia

which makes this image less reportage than mythmaking in arrears

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Attack of the Gun Boats on San Juan de Ulloa - Vintage Maritime Print colorado wall art The sheet belongs to theAttack of the Gun Boats on San Juan de Ulloa Vintage Maritime Print renders the 1838 Pastry War in full chromolithographic fury French gunboats wreathed in smoke, hammering the Mexican fortress that guarded Veracruz harbor. The artist understood that a bombardment is half spectacle, half geometry, and committed both to stone with the patience of a witness. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th