His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 grit_artwork Joseph Hodges Choate 1915

Joseph Hodges Choate 1915

printed on the eve of a contest that would instead crown a Mexican War general and leave Webster

Theodore Frelinghuysen — the New Jersey senator and Whig vice-presidential nominee rendered in the sober dignity of mid-century portraiture

The Celestial Orrery a Lecture on the Heavenly Spheres unfolds like a parlor sermon in brass and ink — concentric orbits wheeling around a small

His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875 grit_artwork Joseph Hodges Choate 1915His Eminence Cardinal McCloskey, Archbishop of New York, 1875. A devotional portrait of the first American to wear the red hat, rendered in the formal idiom of post war ecclesiastical printmaking biretta, pectoral cross, and the steady gaze of a prelate whose elevation marked the Catholic arrival in a Protestant republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National