George Dewey 1899 mid century art and the document was already

and the document was already passing from law into legend

the war two decades behind him and the pen still moving

1849 — a Senate portrait of Alexander Mouton at the close of his term

drawn with the trembling reverence of a man watching the sun exhale

George Dewey 1899 mid century art and the document was alreadyGeorge Dewey, 1899 the Hero of Manila Bay rendered in the immediate afterglow of Cavite, when a single morning's gunnery had folded the Spanish fleet and the Republic's reach into one telegram. The portrait carries the bearing of a Commodore newly minted Admiral, and a country newly minted as empire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional