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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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n each of the Pratts pendentives, which delicately ** Seasons. represent the Seasons, and arefrom models by B. L. Pratt. These are repeated in the three other corner pavilions, as are the general features of decora-tion, while the frescoes are individualized. The special artist whose work is seen in this pavilion is William de L. Dodge, who has made Ambition the subject of his painting in the dome, and has filled the four tympanums of the walls with allegorical scenes, remarkable for the number of figures they include. The dome picture represents the summit of a mountain which may be called Success. to which have climbed a series of persons along thevarious paths, noble and ignoble, of human W. de L. Dodg^e endeavor. The Unattainable Ideal leaps Painting^S. away into the air beyond their reach, never- theless, though trumpeting Fame clutches at the bridle. The struggling crowd displays types of many forms of Ambi-tion, and a Jester stands one side and laughs at the useless strife. Mr.
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THE LIBRAEY OF CONGRESS. 65 Dodges wall paintings depict Music (north), Science (east), Art (south), and Literature(west). Each includes a group of figures about the presiding genius of their art, andillustrating clearly by their attitudes, occupations, or implements its characteristicsand development. Thus in Music musicians, ancient and modern, are playing beforeApollo, the god of song and harmony. Science, an ideal winged figure before atemple, h^s summoned the representatives of Invention, and the scene is filled withsuggestions of scientific discovery — Franklins kite that began modern progress inelectricity, a teakettle as a reminder of the origin of the idea of the steam engine, etc.Art displays the painter, the sculptor, and the architect at work. In Literature agraceful group illustrates education, the book, the drama, poetry, the fame that crownsthe successful author, and so forth. Several large table-cases are placed in this room, containing manuscripts, autographs,and cu

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