View of the City of Washington, taken from Arlington House – Vintage Wall Art
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A window into the past: View of the City of Washington, taken from Arlington House, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
View of the City of Washington, taken from Arlington House
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Arlington House, the hilltop mansion on the Virginia side of the Potomac, gave this view a vantage point over the young capital that few other sites could match. From its grounds, the viewer looks across the river toward the scattered government buildings of Washington, a city still half-built when the house's occupants were looking down on it in the nineteenth century. The house had been built by George Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of Martha Washington, and later passed to Robert E. Lee through his marriage to Custis's daughter. The picture is worth studying for how sparse the city looked, with open fields and few tall structures between the monuments and public buildings.
| Original scan | 5,231 × 2,982 px · prints to 17 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 09301u |
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