Captain Wilkes 1862 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and the rising shadow of

and the rising shadow of the Chrysler spire conspire in a single bustling thoroughfare

printed in a year when the wounds of the war were still fresh and the civic appetite for reconciliation louder than the truth of it

Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th-century lithographic publishers — Currier & Ives

ceremonial swords

the Endicott firm

Captain Wilkes 1862 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame and the rising shadow ofCaptain Wilkes 1862 a portrait of the Union officer whose seizure of Confederate envoys from the British mail packet Trent the previous November had nearly dragged Lincoln's beleaguered republic into a second war, rendered here in the careful gravity of a man briefly hailed as a hero and quietly rebuked as a diplomat. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National