Russell J. Colt, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame of Monticello's dome and the

of Monticello's dome and the colonial brick of Williamsburg

President Abraham Lincoln and His Generals 1884 a posthumous group portrait assembled nearly two decades after Appomattox

and quietly ticking toward God

rendered by Smith's patient hand as though the terminator itself were a line drawn between the known and the unknowable

Russell J. Colt, 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame of Monticello's dome and theRussell J. Colt, 19th Century a portrait of the Colt heir rendered in the formal idiom of Gilded Age society photography, all starched collar and inherited gravity, the kind of likeness commissioned when a surname had already become an industry. 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