Abraham Lincoln 195 Size:24x36 its tall conical shaft and

its tall conical shaft and lantern-room geometry inked with the precision of engineers who knew the 8th District's hurricanes would test every course of masonry they specified

the gaze of a man reading casualty lists by lamplight

when the face had thinned to bone and shadow and the war's arithmetic had carved itself into every line

the weight of a country tearing itself toward something it could not yet name

Abraham Lincoln 195 Size:24x36 its tall conical shaft andAbraham Lincoln 195 belongs to the vast iconography that accumulated around the sixteenth president a portrait study reproduced and recirculated until the long face, the deep set eyes, and the weight of a country at war with itself became the visual shorthand for the Union itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and