John Paul Jones, Commodore Au Service Des Etats Unis De L'Amerique 1780 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Lee at the center

Lee at the center

The crowd moves like ink across the plate

before the long war made his face the most photographed in the republic

the year Polk marched the country into Mexico and the Republic narrated itself in engraved vignettes — a young nation already addicted to the grandeur of its own retelling

John Paul Jones, Commodore Au Service Des Etats Unis De L'Amerique 1780 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Lee at the centerJohn Paul Jones, Commodore Au Service Des Etats Unis De L'Amerique 1780. A French engraving of the Scotsman who taught the young Republic to fight at sea, his rank rendered in the language of the only ally that mattered issued in the year his name became a sentence the British Admiralty could not finish. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional