Sujet

The State-House, Ohio, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The State-House, Ohio, [USA], 1850. 'This handsome edifice has lately been erected in the city of Columbus...The building contains the Hall of Representatives...the Senate Chamber...and the Library...the Rotunda [is] richly ornamented with cornice, brackets, and panels. There are also rooms for the Circuit Court of the United States, and offices for the Executive, and every department of the state Government, besides thirty-six committee-rooms. The style of architecture is Grecian Doric....The Rotunda is covered with a stone conical roof, designed by Mr. W. Russell West, the present architect of the state...The dimensions of the building are 305 ft. by 184 ft. It is surrounded by a terrace...The height to the top of the roof of the rotunda from the ground is 140 ft...The material employed in the building is a secondary limestone...resembling, at a short distance, white marble'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_387

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

36,0Mo (2,9Mo) / 42,0cm x 21,5cm / 4960 x 2540 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building style architecture stone arts limestone Capitol art British Neo-classical Victorian century Columbus Britain newspapers press B&W Ohio engraved engraving United States of America 19th century black & white black and white B W Neoclassical Neoclassicism Greek Revival nineteenth century Neo-Classicism The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN outside newspaper Unknown Ohio Statehouse 19th-century