Henry Clay 1844 Size:18x24 his face conscripted into the

his face conscripted into the civic liturgy of a republic newly bloodied by another war

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A group portrait from the bruised years following Appomattox

Washington's Birthday 1876 — a centennial commemorative observing the first president's natal day in the Republic's hundredth year

Henry Clay 1844 Size:18x24 his face conscripted into theHenry Clay 1844. A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser in the year his third bid for the presidency faltered against Polk and the gathering tide of annexation Clay rendered in the steady gravity of Whig lithography, a statesman of the Senate caught at the threshold of a country choosing expansion over caution. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,