Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print Jupiter's Captives the Celestial Prison

Jupiter's Captives the Celestial Prison of Wandering Comets — a Victorian astronomical lithograph in which the gas giant becomes a gravitational gaoler

the Wonder Wheel turning against a linen sky

when photography and lithography were enlisted in the slow

Pairs naturally with other documents from the Bella Frye Curious pillar — celestial atlases

Army and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 Jacksonville_print Jupiter's Captives the Celestial PrisonArmy and Navy Monument, Boston, Mass., 1872 a documentary engraving of the granite shaft rising on Boston Common just seven years after Appomattox, when the city's masons were still translating grief into civic stone and the dead into allegorical figures. 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