Fate of the Rebel Flag 1861 Broncos_Print Daniel Webster Addressing the United

Daniel Webster Addressing the United States Senate in the Great Debate of 1850

and history of classic illustrations and paintings—from nature studies and antique maps to elegant portraiture and architectural sketches

dressing wounds and drafting verse in the same breath

their hulls heeled into a courteous trans-Atlantic rivalry rendered with all the rigging an engraver's eye could count

The engraver's laurel is fresh

Fate of the Rebel Flag 1861 Broncos_Print Daniel Webster Addressing the UnitedFate of the Rebel Flag 1861 a Union allegorical lithograph published in the war's first year, when the secessionist banner was still being denounced in print before it could be defeated in the field. The image trades in prophecy: the rebel colors torn, scattered, or swallowed, rendered with the moral certainty only 1861 could muster. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the