Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:24x18 Abraham Lincoln 1860 — the

Abraham Lincoln 1860 — the prairie lawyer rendered on the eve of his improbable ascent

glorious decade when American clippers raced the Horn for Liverpool wool and bragging rights

bathing pavilions

where a soldier becomes scripture before the ink has dried

when soldiering was still half pageantry and the ledger of casualties had barely opened

Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:24x18 Abraham Lincoln 1860 — theDiscovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 a documentary engraving steeped in the heroic mode, casting the Spaniard and his armored retinue at the riverbank as if conquest were a sacrament. The composition treats a contested arrival as revelation, the Mississippi rendered less as geography than as inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of