Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century Size:24x18 Hayes 1877 — a presidential

Hayes 1877 — a presidential portrait from the year the Compromise seated him in office and pulled the last federal troops from the South

William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 — a portrait of the general a dozen years after Atlanta

his bearded steadiness rendered in the engraver's deliberate cross-hatching

when the sixteenth president's gaunt features were studied as closely as battlefield maps

and Babe Ruth behind its famously soundproofed walls

Entrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century Size:24x18 Hayes 1877 — a presidentialEntrance of Cortez Into Mexico, 19th Century a romantic engraving of the conquistador's 1519 arrival at Tenochtitln, rendered in that distinctly Victorian appetite for spectacle, where horses, banners, and Aztec emissaries are arranged less as history than as theater dressed in the costume of empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional