Minerva, design for a mosaic by Elihu Vedder, Congressional Library, Washington – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Minerva, design for a mosaic by Elihu Vedder, Congressional Library, Washington in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Minerva, design for a mosaic by Elihu Vedder, Congressional Library, Washington
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The subject here is Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and the arts, a fitting figure for a national library. This photomechanical reproduction shows Elihu Vedder's design for a mosaic intended for the Library of Congress in Washington, the building that was then rising as the institution's new home. Vedder, an American painter best known for his illustrations of the *Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam*, was commissioned to contribute to the building's decorative program. The print was issued by the Boston firm Curtis & Cameron, which made Copley prints, a process that allowed fine-art designs to reach a wide public in the late 1890s.
| Created / published | 1896, c1897. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Design drawings Reproductions.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Copley print copyright 1897 by Curtis & Cameron. Painting copyright c1896 by E. Vedder. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,266 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181229 |
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