Design for scaffold around peristyle of dome – Antique Wall Art
![Design for scaffold around peristyle of dome, [between ca. 1852 and ca. 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4d/4d96b842fe37-L.webp)
(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 Design for scaffold around peristyle of dome in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Design for scaffold around peristyle of dome
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Rather than showing a finished building, this print records a plan for the work itself: a scaffold meant to wrap the peristyle, the colonnade that rings the base of a dome. The caption card is unverified, but the title and the 1852 to 1860 date range point toward the U.S. Capitol, where Thomas U. Walter's new iron dome was going up during the 1850s. Builders needed temporary framing like this to reach the upper columns while stone and iron were set in place. Working designs of this kind show how the construction was planned as much as how the finished building would look.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1852 and ca. 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,240 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160073 |
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