John Amory Lowell 1895 oakland_canvas the firmament's most quiet memento

the firmament's most quiet memento mori

the prelate rendered with the grave composure that Gilded Age Catholicism reserved for its American shepherds

and the original plate annotations are preserved in the print

summoned back into circulation as the Union bled through its third year — the founder's likeness pressed into service as moral ballast

William Cabell Rives

John Amory Lowell 1895 oakland_canvas the firmament's most quiet mementoJohn Amory Lowell 1895 a late century portrait of the Boston Brahmin merchant and trustee, rendered in the dignified manner reserved for men whose fortunes shaped textile mills and library endowments alike. The image carries the quiet gravity of Gilded Age Massachusetts, where commerce wore the face of civic duty. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,