General William J. Worth at the Storming of the Bishop's Palace, Monterey, Sept 22nd 1846 Size:18x24 The heavens

The heavens

The draftsman's hand lingers over the gallery railings and the careful geometry of the focal plane

lesser hands

and the Virginian who first imagined the thing — three faces marshaled into a single lithograph of remembrance

General William J. Worth at the Storming of the Bishop's Palace, Monterey, Sept 22nd 1846 Size:18x24 The heavensGeneral William J. Worth at the Storming of the Bishop's Palace, Monterey, Sept 22nd 1846. A documentary engraving of Worth's western column scaling the heights above Monterrey the moment Manifest Destiny stopped speaking in editorials and began answering in artillery, with a Mexican palace as its lectern. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional