John Paul Jones, Classis Praefecto, 1747-1792 Size:24x36 and to the end

and to the end

The Gentlemans Morning Ritual Patent Drawing No 1879553 is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

Taft — a campaign lithograph drumming for the rotund jurist from Ohio

his gaunt face rendered with the gravity of a man carrying a sundered Union on his shoulders

the spiral stair and lantern-room geometry drawn with the gravity of men who knew exactly what the sea had already taken

John Paul Jones, Classis Praefecto, 1747-1792 Size:24x36 and to the endJohn Paul Jones, Classis Praefecto, 1747 1792. An engraved tribute to the Scottish born commodore styled in Latin as fleet commander, his likeness fixed between the years that bracket a life spent harrying the Royal Navy in its own waters and proving an upstart republic could fight at sea. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical