Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 Size:18x24 civic grammar of a republic

civic grammar of a republic still counting its losses and learning what remembrance was supposed to look like

the same sober face hardened by the long arithmetic of the years between

Gettysburg

rendered with the studied gravity of a Democrat trying to outlast the Panic of '37 and the Whig knives already sharpening for 1840

his jaw set with the certainty of a man who believed the Republic's future lay past the Mississippi

Henry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 Size:18x24 civic grammar of a republicHenry A. Wise, Representative From Virginia, 1849 a congressional portrait of the Accomack firebrand whose tongue could lash a chamber into silence, rendered in the formal lithographic hand reserved for men the Capitol had learned to fear and quote in equal measure. 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