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You’ve likely heard of Samuel F.B Morse, generally credited with the invention of the telegraph. But you might be less aware that the man who famously used his code to say “what hath God wrought?” was also an artist, in fact one of America’s best and most prolific portrait artists, one of our most gifted historical artists, and a leading figure in the development of an American school of art.
As one THG fan stated, this is a "fascinating tale of 19th century feminine spunk and dare-doing." Because in the end, a clever person can get around any rule.
Encountering the metal in the New World in the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors assumed that the metal was simply gold that hadn’t yet ripened- they gave it the derisive name “platina” meaning “little silver.”
