Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame In the Dark Days

In the Dark Days

1844 — a Whig portrait from the year Polk's expansionists swept the field

where ocean breezes once carried the calliope's tune toward Wesley Lake

Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped tier reads as a sermon to the silent-screen era — devotion rendered in plasterwork

Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame In the Dark DaysMrs. Stephen A. Douglas, 19th Century a portrait of Adele Cutts Douglas, the Washington belle who married the Little Giant at the height of his quarrels with Lincoln, rendered with the soft formality reserved for senatorial wives whose drawing rooms doubled as the antechambers of antebellum power. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical