George Washington 1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame These are lithographed views of

These are lithographed views of the First State's working capital

his Anaconda Plan already drawn in the margins of a country splitting open

The Hoffman Closure Patent Blueprint for the Champagne Seal reads like the engineering of a pour — the lever

issued in the year a bullet at a Washington railway station would cut his presidency to mere months — the lithograph carries the steady gaze of a man the country had only just begun to read

The face here is the one the country was learning to read for weather

George Washington 1893 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame These are lithographed views ofGeorge Washington 1893 a late century homage struck nearly a hundred years after the general's death, when the republic was busy canonizing its founders in lithograph and bronze. The portrait belongs to that Gilded Age impulse to varnish memory, rendering Washington less man than civic relic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical