General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian

The Celestial Shadow Mechanics Victorian Eclipse Diagram charts the geometry of occultation with the gravitas of a theological proof — umbra and penumbra traced in the patient hand of an astronomer who believed the moon's transit across the sun was less an event than a sentence spoken in the old grammar of the firmament

fresh from negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

19th Century — a quiet interior of the general's working sanctum

the general and the Natick cobbler bound together for another four years of Reconstruction's grinding work

cataloguing the campaigns of the man whose stubborn arithmetic ground the rebellion to dust and who now stood

General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 The Celestial Shadow Mechanics VictorianGeneral John Alexander Logan Family 1887 a domestic portrait of the Union general and Illinois senator gathered with his kin the year after his death, the fierce architect of Memorial Day softened here into patriarch, the household composed in that particular Gilded Age stillness reserved for men whose public lives had just become memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,