Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Gentlemans Apparatus Patent 38233

The Gentlemans Apparatus Patent 38233 belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

Every brace and tension rod is drawn by a hand that knew the bay would test each rivet

engraved here in the long aftermath of the war his words had tried to forestall

The likeness carries the weariness of Appomattox and the unspoken charge of Reconstruction still ahead

Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The Gentlemans Apparatus Patent 38233Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen the New Jersey senator and Whig vice presidential nominee rendered in the sober dignity of mid century portraiture, his likeness drawn from the years when temperance pieties and Indian Removal debates shared the same Senate floor, and a man's character was measured in pulpit cadence. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,