John M. Robinson, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame New Cathedral of New York

New Cathedral of New York Fifth Avenue 1859

his stoic likeness fixed in the very year Dred Scott detonated through the Court and the country leaned hard toward its reckoning

mourning rendered as martial dignity in the long aftermath of the war he survived

The Clockwork Heavens — Reynolds' Transparent Solar System — a Victorian astronomical lithograph in which Reynolds rendered the orrery as devotional object

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John M. Robinson, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame New Cathedral of New YorkJohn M. Robinson, 19th Century an engraved portrait of the Illinois senator whose Jacksonian loyalties carried him from the state bench to the floor of the U. S. Senate, his likeness rendered with the sober formality reserved for men who legislated the republic's restless westward push. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,