Steamboat Peter Crary on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print Wrigley_Wall_Art The Wandering Gods Celestial Mechanics

The Wandering Gods Celestial Mechanics of Mars Jupiter traces the looping retrograde paths of the two great wanderers — the war-god and the storm-king — across an ephemeris page where mathematics and mythology share the same ink

smoke-like spirals and gem-strewn clusters that haunted the great reflectors of the 1800s — Lord Rosse's leviathan among them — into a single contemplative plate

The plate carries the bearing of a man who believed himself the rightful commander of a revolution

the right whale arching beneath a slate-gray Atlantic while the longboat heels hard against a tail that could splinter it to kindling

Butler of the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment at Churubusco — a martial lithograph from the Mexican War

Steamboat Peter Crary on the Hudson River - Vintage Maritime Print Wrigley_Wall_Art The Wandering Gods Celestial MechanicsSteamboat Peter Crary on the Hudson River Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph in the antebellum river packet tradition, the Peter Crary churns her paddlewheel through Hudson chop with smokestacks plumed and decks crowded, the Palisades rising behind her like a stage flat. It's a tableau from the brief, glorious heyday when steam, river, and commerce moved as one current. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American