American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 445
rsement, rather thanthrough any especial technical excellence or ap-propriateness of sentiment, it was for a long timeinstinctively acknowledged, in the absence of anyother published design, as the natural exponentof public sentiment. It was a vast circular colon-nade, of the Greek Doric order, two… … Design for Washington Monument,By Robert Mills. AMERICAN ART 355 within a million and a quarter of dollars. The corner-stone was laid on the 4th of July, 1848.Seven years later, when the bare shaft had been raised to the height of one hundred andseventy-four feet, the funds of the Association were…
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