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[Panel and medallion details from bronze doors for the east portico of the Senate wing, U.S. Capitol] – Antique Wall Art

[Panel and medallion details from bronze doors for the east portico of the Senate wing, U.S. Capitol], [between 1855 and 1865] — historic photograph
[Panel and medallion details from bronze doors for the east portico of the Senate wing, U.S. Capitol], [between 1855 and 1865]. Historic photograph from the U.S. Capitol 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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Bronze panels and medallions from the east portico doors of the Senate wing are the focus here, and the record notes that the scenes carried on them include Revolutionary War campaigns and battles. The photograph comes from an album kept by Benjamin Brown French, who served as Commissioner of Public Buildings and oversaw much of the Capitol's extension in the years before and during the Civil War. The doors were part of the effort to finish and decorate the expanded building. Close views like this one show the modeling of individual figures and reliefs that is hard to make out from the ground.

Created / published[between 1855 and 1865]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen ; 45 x 21 cm.
NotesIn album: Benjamin Brown French Photographs
SubjectsUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1850-1870. Doors & doorways--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1870. Medallions (Ornament areas)--Washington (D.C.)--1850-1870. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns & battles.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan734 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158140

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