A practical guide to the Library of Congress paintings : with 92 key pictures and other illustrations and the library quotations (1903)
Washington : Foster & Reynolds · leaf 10
ing over the “Diffusion of the Products of the Typographical Art.” Two winged figures of youthful genii are, as her envoys, conveying to mankind the bless- ings of learning and literature. By Minerva’s side is her owl ; other sugges- tions are the hour-glass, the old-fashioned printing press, the… … Bronze Fountain — Court of Neptune.
Library of Congress · Mural painting and decoration, American · Symbolism in art
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