Image of two copies of the same image on one sheet of views of prominent buildings and locales in Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas and images related to United States President George Washington consisting of a top centered head-and-shoulders portrait of Washington in an oval frame decorated with flags and military items and two vignettes of Mount Vernon and the Tomb of Washington; a lower central image of an elevated landscape view of the United States Capitol building with the cityscape in the background, directly above a vignette of the Washington Monument and two scenes of Washington as a General during the American Revolution and Columbia, the goddess of Liberty, with flags and two cherubs; with three central columns containing twenty-six small vignettes of the front facades of buildings in Washington, D.C., including the United States General Post Office, United States Treasury, the Observatory, the White House, the Military Asylum, the Columbia Armory, the War Department, the Willard Hotel, the United States Navy Yard, the United States Arsenal, Matthew Church, the City Hall, Trinity Church, Georgetown College, an elevated view of Georgetown, the National Hotel, the Lunatic Asylum, the United States Patent Office, the Smithsonian Institute, a building dedicated to the Fine Arts, interior views of the crowded chambers of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and three statues including a statue of Andrew Jackson and a statute of Washington by Clark Mills. Probable date based on dates provided for other items published by Magnus in the collection and the date provided for a Civil War envelope published by Magnus with the same images in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia. "Published by Chas. Magnus [space] No 12 Frankfort Street, N. York."--text, bottom right margin of image of Capitol Building.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 86.04 x 50.64 cm (33 7/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--Pictorial works Washington (D.C.)--Pictorial works Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)--Pictorial works Washington, George, 1732-1799--Pictorial works Cities and towns--Pictorial works Founding Fathers of the United States--Pictorial works Public buildings--Pictorial works Statues--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Politics & Social Issues Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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