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St. Paul's Church 1712: Rock Creek Cemetery, close to the Henry Adams Monument – Historic Print

St. Paul's Church 1712: Rock Creek Cemetery, close to the Henry Adams Monument — historic drawing
St. Paul's Church 1712: Rock Creek Cemetery, close to the Henry Adams Monument. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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St. Paul's Church 1712: Rock Creek Cemetery, close to the Henry Adams Monument comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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St. Paul's Church 1712: Rock Creek Cemetery, close to the Henry Adams Monument

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The title places the old St. Paul's Church beside Rock Creek Cemetery's best-known monument, the Henry Adams Monument. Historian Henry Adams commissioned Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create the bronze figure, usually called *Grief*, in memory of his wife, Marian "Clover" Adams, after her death in 1885. The sculpture drew visitors to the grounds for decades. Rendered in ink and charcoal around 1918, the scene shows an early colonial parish and a late nineteenth-century cemetery standing together as the capital grew around them.

Medium1 drawing : ink and charcoal.
Notes[ca. 1918]
SubjectsCemeteries--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920. Anglican churches--Washington (D.C.)--1910-1920. Rock Creek Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,000 × 4,026 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-224308

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