George Washington 19 Huge_Sailboat 19th Century — a portrait

19th Century — a portrait of the man dispatched from a peninsula still half-wilderness

and Loyalty as the creed of men who had survived the war and now drilled

The victor of Gettysburg rendered in the sober tonalities of a 19th-century portrait engraving — beard

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama

George Washington 19 Huge_Sailboat 19th Century — a portraitGeorge Washington 19 one in a long lineage of engraved likenesses of the General turned President, his face the founding republic's most reproduced icon, struck and re struck until the man himself receded behind the marble of his own myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier &