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A hand-colored print showing an imagined view from 1856 of the East Front of the Capitol with a large new dome and new House and Senate wings. Visitors in colorful clothing and horse-drawn carriages are strolling and riding on the grounds in front of the building. Below the scene is an eagle with a stars-and-stripes seal, and the words “National Capitol.”/tiles/collection/1/1712.xml
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A hand-colored print showing an imagined view from 1856 of the East Front of the Capitol with a large new dome and new House and Senate wings. Visitors in colorful clothing and horse-drawn carriages are strolling and riding on the grounds in front of the building. Below the scene is an eagle with a stars-and-stripes seal, and the words “National Capitol.”
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Date

1856-04-19

Publication

Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion

Publisher

Maturin M. Ballou

Dimensions

15 x 22 1/4 in. (38.1 x 56.5 cm) Framed: 22 7/8 x 29 1/2 in. (58.1 x 74.9 cm)

Accession Number

2004.087.018

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Published the year that the 1824 Capitol dome was taken down, this print shows the appearance of the Thomas U. Walter plan for the extended Capitol building and dome, approved in 1854. The new north and south wings of the building pictured here opened in the following few years, though the dome remained under construction until after the outbreak of the Civil War.

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