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 37
sh; then, foot soldiers with spear and buckler; the King on his white horse, riding over the prostrate bodies of the slain; the color-bearer and herald proclaiming victory, and the wounded car- War. ried on litters or attended by nurses in the rear. In Peace, the scene is a procession of… … Peace. of her child, the sick to ask health, a poet to offer his laurel wreath, and a sailor lad with a ship’s model in token of gratitude for succor at sea. The Names on the walls are: Wellington, Washington, Charles Martel, Cyrus, Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon, Jackson,…
Library of Congress · Mural painting and decoration, American · Symbolism in art
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