American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 440
htypyk)ns about the base of the shaft might have tended to justify its enormous blankness. But no AMERICAN ART 357 attempt was made either in the colonnade or in the shaft to reconcile the perpetual and funda-mental incompatibility which must have prevailed between them in every respect of line,… … Design for Washington Monument, by H. R. Searle, of Washington, D. C.Reproduced by Permission from the American Architect. his principles; found it upon the massive and eternal rock, — you cannot make it more endur-ing than his fame; construct it of the purest Parian marble, — you cannot make it…
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