Washington Monument 1844 Frame Style:Ebony Frame 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

Where It Belongs

Portraits of the Presidents 1846 assembles the executive line from Washington to Polk in a single engraved gathering

and the firmament a willing accomplice

and pinned to parlor walls

Washington Monument 1844 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Jupiter's Captives the Celestial PrisonWashington Monument 1844 renders the obelisk in its earliest ambition, drafted while the shaft was still rising from its Potomac foundation a lithographer's vision of marble certainty issued in the very decade Manifest Destiny taught the republic to build upward as well as outward. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and