Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . , 1878-80. i. America and History; 2. Landin;?of Columbus; 3. Cortez and Montezuma at Mexican Temple; 4. Pizarro oftPeni; 5. De Sotos Burial in the Mississippi River ; 6. Rescue of John Smitlby Pocohontas ; 7. Landing of the Pilgrims ; 8. Penns Treaty with the Indians, unfinished at the death of Brumidi, resumed by Filippo Costiggini, alsoa native of Rome, July 1880, and executed the four cartoons left by Brumidi,9, Colonization of New England; 10, Og
Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . , 1878-80. i. America and History; 2. Landin;?of Columbus; 3. Cortez and Montezuma at Mexican Temple; 4. Pizarro oftPeni; 5. De Sotos Burial in the Mississippi River ; 6. Rescue of John Smitlby Pocohontas ; 7. Landing of the Pilgrims ; 8. Penns Treaty with the Indians, unfinished at the death of Brumidi, resumed by Filippo Costiggini, alsoa native of Rome, July 1880, and executed the four cartoons left by Brumidi,9, Colonization of New England; 10, Oglethorpe and the Muscogee Indians ;II, Battle of Lexington ; cartoons 12 to ifi will be of designs by the new ;= style is fresco in Chinro-osdiro (Light and Shade). The Historical Paintings :-Jn the rotunda represent the discovery andsettlement of N. America and events in the struggle for inde-pendence. The Trumbull paintings were ordered in 1817, and finished in 1824. Trum-bull served as aid-de-camp to Washington in 1775. His figures are likenessesof the actors in the scenes Dortraved. taken in America and Eurooe. ROTUNDA. 71. SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE DOME.(From * Washington Inside and Outride.*) ROTUNDA. ^ <v :: CJ fl . P C^ O G O) — ?? «== O 03 O S (N ^J S G * TJH^ = O) JS «co fl =« ? 9> o 1—< «3 5 oJ o 1—ca> . G OQ s; ^ CO _ S o .is i- - <^ ^ 75 a, <u o^ « ^• ^ ?^ «^ c3 ^ s^ 2 ^ •- , =S r- K C a -C ID «• - OS c M ^ r G Q. J? tfc_ on -S-gGg^^G c3^ o ^ „ S oi o fl o 5 2 §5
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