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when a republic still bandaging the wounds of civil war gathered its founders
recasting the fallen general as marble saint for veterans who had outlived both the man and the war he was made to symbolize
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a republic drawn in ink and laid out in stone
Life of George Washington: The Christian Death 1853 Size:36x24 when a republic still bandagingLife of George Washington: The Christian Death 1853 a mid century lithograph rendering the General's final hour as scripture, his Mount Vernon bedside arranged with the solemnity of an altar. The print belongs to that antebellum hunger to canonize the founders, casting Washington less as statesman than as Protestant saint expiring on cue. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,
