Constitution of the United States and a Plan of the Capitol at Washington Size:36x24 and the Confederate hold on

and the Confederate hold on the lower South finally giving way to Grant's patient

Charles Sumner 1874 — a likeness of the Massachusetts senator rendered in the year of his death

Design of Bronze Monument Commemorative of American Independence 1873 — a draftsman's proposal rendered in the civic vocabulary of the post-war republic

The portrait carries the strange double weight of a First Lady at her zenith and a widow not yet aware she is one

Constitution of the United States and a Plan of the Capitol at Washington Size:36x24 and the Confederate hold onConstitution of the United States and a Plan of the Capitol at Washington pairs the founding charter with the architectural ambition meant to house it articles of governance set beside the floor plan of the chamber where they would be argued, a republic drawn in ink and laid out in stone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical