Capitol at Washington 19th Century Size:24x18 An engraved tribute to the

An engraved tribute to the Scottish-born commodore styled in Latin as fleet commander

The swearing-in of James A

Late President USA

his three stars freshly minted by an Act of Congress that hadn't been invoked since Washington

its octagonal superstructure and lantern-room geometry drawn by engineers who knew the harbor would test every rivet they specified

Capitol at Washington 19th Century Size:24x18 An engraved tribute to theCapitol at Washington 19th Century an engraving of the dome rising above the Mall, rendered in the decades after Walter's cast iron crown finally closed over the rotunda. The building reads less as architecture here than as argument: a republic insisting, in marble and shadow, that it had survived itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional