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[Photographic prints of maquettes for various schemes for a pediment (Pediment for the House wing of the Capitol") U.S. Capitol – Vintage Photo Print

[Photographic prints of maquettes for various schemes for a pediment (Pediment for the House wing of the Capitol") U.S. Capitol, ADE - UNIT 2445, no. 20 (D size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items) — historic photograph
[Photographic prints of maquettes for various schemes for a pediment (Pediment for the House wing of the Capitol") U.S. Capitol, ADE - UNIT 2445, no. 20 (D size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items). Historic photograph from the Library of Congress collection.

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Few pictures show the design process behind a building as directly as these photographs of small maquettes, the scale models that were tested for the pediment of the House wing of the U.S. Capitol. Each version offers a different arrangement of figures and relief across the triangular gable, so the set captures the sculptural choices that architects and commissioners weighed while the mid-nineteenth-century extension of the Capitol took shape. Viewers interested in how the building's final appearance was decided will find the variations especially revealing.

Created / publishedADE - UNIT 2445, no. 20 (D size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
Medium2002711909
Genreand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
NotesFor information see Architecture
SubjectsDesign
Original scan4,096 × 3,231 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190532

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