Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Every brace and tension rod

Every brace and tension rod is drawn by a hand that knew the bay would test each rivet

and real-photo glimpses of mill stacks lit orange against the night shift

every bolt threaded into Chesapeake mud is rendered with the patience of a draftsman who knew this little red drum had to outlast the river itself

The likeness carries the weariness of Appomattox and the unspoken charge of Reconstruction still ahead

Abraham Lincoln and His Emancipation Proclamation 1888 is a commemorative chromolithograph issued a generation after the war

Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Every brace and tension rodHon. Theodore Frelinghuysen the New Jersey senator and Whig vice presidential nominee rendered in the sober dignity of mid century portraiture, his likeness drawn from the years when temperance pieties and Indian Removal debates shared the same Senate floor, and a man's character was measured in pulpit cadence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,