A Short History of General Leonidas Polk, from the Histories of Genera

A bearded man with swept-back gray hair gazes upward and to the side in a bust-length portrait. He wears a blue-gray military coat with gold buttons and a dark collar bearing three gold stars. A pink ribbon banner beneath reads the title, printed in a commercial color lithograph.

Look closer: Three small gold stars on the dark collar mark the rank of the uniform.

Artist

W. Duke, Sons & Co.

Date

1888

Medium

Commercial color lithograph

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1567 × 2809 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick