Abraham Lincoln President of the United States Signing the Emancipation Proclamation 1864 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Washington D

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freighted with the swagger of a navy that had just dismantled a Spanish fleet before breakfast

a posthumous likeness rendered in the iconography of national mourning — the martyred president recast in printmaker's ink for a country still arguing over what his death was supposed to have settled

looping inside Earth's orbit on a Victorian plate where epicycles read less like geometry and more like choreography

recalling the volley fired into War of 1812 captives still held on English granite weeks after the peace had already been signed at Ghent

Abraham Lincoln President of the United States Signing the Emancipation Proclamation 1864 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Washington DAbraham Lincoln President of the United States Signing the Emancipation Proclamation 1864. A commemorative engraving of the cabinet hour itself Lincoln bent over the document that would rewrite the war's purpose, his ministers gathered around a table where ink, at last, did the work of armies. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical