ワシントンにあるアメリカ合衆国議会議事堂のポーチコ(柱廊式玄関)のドアを写したもの。
凝った細工が大変美しい。
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Crawford door,Senate portico,Capitol
603.-Bronze door.-Senate portico of capitol, Washington.
-Designed by Crawford.
The panels commemorate: The death of Warren at Bunker Hill,1775;
Washington’s Rebuke of Gen.
Charles Lee at Monmouth,1778;
Hamilton’s Gallantry at Yorktown,1781;
Washington’s reception at Trenton, when on the way to his inauguration as first president, 1789;
Washington’s first inauguration,1789;
Laying the corner stone of the capitol,sept.18,1793.
The panels below contain allegories of War(struggle between a Hessian and settler),and peace.
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