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Title: The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874-
Subjects: Art museums Art Art
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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our. The House of Representatives contains one in-.1 relic. It is the clock attachedhe middle of the gallery, opposite the speakersdesk. The dial is surrounded by a wreath offruits, and surmounted by an eagle and a shield,while at the sides Stand figures of an Indian anda Pi This is the work of William H. Rine- (825-1874), and was done when he re-turn- this country, after a sojourn in Rome, inehart identified himself with Baltimore, which city preserves a very complete record of his work. He immortalized his name by the founding of a hip for the education of American sculp- The decoration of the east portico of the House unprovided for until (909, when Congress missioned Paul Wayland Bartlett to make the ip of sculpture for the pediment. The pre- 320 Ube Hrt XTreaaures of TKflasbington liminary design showed a central figure of Peace,surrounded by groups of figures symbolic of theindustries. The work is being done by Mr. Bart-lett in his Paris studio, and promises a rich achieve-ment.
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>F PEDIMENT FOR THE HOUSE PORTICO OF THE ( \ll TL - MO II By Paul W. Bartlett CH \PTER XXIII MISCELLANEOUS SCULPTURE PRESERVED in the interior of the Capitol is aof sculpture of various periods. The earli-\mencan sculptor represented is John Frazee;2), a descendant of Scotch emigrantswho lauded at Perth Amboy amongst the first set-of that place. The sculptor was born in Rah-Jersey, and began life as a stone cutter,carving his first bust in 1824 or 1825. The sub-ject of his first effort at portraiture was John Wells,a prominent lawyer of New York, and the monu-ment stands in old St. Pauls Church on Broadway.It was made from a death-mask, and modelled andput into marble without instruction. This wasly the first marble bust chiselled in this coun-ubtedly the first carved by an Americancitizen. What labours intervened are not recorded, but, m 1831, at the instance of the Honourable G. C. rplanck. Congress appropriated $500 for the bust John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supr

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