Jefferson Davis and Family New York canvas art that narrow back room where

that narrow back room where a republic

rendered with the stiff dignity of antebellum statecraft

A nocturne for a future that never quite arrived

dressing them in marble

National Archives

Jefferson Davis and Family New York canvas art that narrow back room whereJefferson Davis and Family the Confederate president rendered not in martial pose but in the domestic frame, surrounded by the wife and children whose fortunes were bound to a rebellion already collapsing. A portrait that softens the architect of secession into a father, as if the household could absolve the cause. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,