Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Stephen Grover Cleveland 1884 —

Stephen Grover Cleveland 1884 — a campaign portrait from the year the Buffalo reformer broke a quarter-century of Republican rule

A campaign portrait of the Customs House collector turned running mate to Garfield — the side-whiskered machine politician rendered in respectable lithographic gravity

1861 — a martial portrait fixed barely a month after Manassas

rendered in the sober engraved manner reserved for men whose weapon was the lectern rather than the rifle

Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Stephen Grover Cleveland 1884 —Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century a portrait of the Union's quiet butcher, rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington. The likeness carries the weight of a man who fought by arithmetic, willing to spend what the ledger demanded to end the war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical