Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art all riveted spires and zigzag

all riveted spires and zigzag crowns reaching skyward in the manner the Chrysler and Empire State taught a generation of draftsmen to draw

the French-born merchant who once bankrolled a young republic now rendered in the sober tones of Jacksonian-era engraving

The lithograph carries the careful gravity of Gilded Age politics

Every brace and disc foundation is drawn with the patience of a man who knew the Florida reef takes ships the way salt takes iron

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 Barber_Canvas_Art all riveted spires and zigzagSatan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear, the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission, ink and blood meeting on the page in the country's blackest April. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional