Westward Ho! [graphic].
Wood, John, 1806-1866, photographer.
Leutze, Emanuel, 1816-1868, artist.
still image
Salted paper prints 1860-1870. gmgpc
[1861]
eng
Photograph of preparatory oil sketch, mural on canvas, for the proposed fresco in the U.S. Capitol showing American pioneers crossing mountains on horseback and in covered wagons; includes a view of the Golden Gate Strait. (Source: AOC curator B., Wolanin, 2013)
Also known as: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way. Original mural study, dated 1861, is at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/westward-course-empire-takes-its-way-mural-study-us-capitol-14569.
In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," page 111.
Title devised by Library staff.
Notations: From original study; a fresco in s. wing; 'Crossing the Divide;' Leutze; Golden Gate.
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1850-1870.
Internal migration--United States--1860-1870.
Murals--Washington (D.C.)--1860-1870.
Golden Gate (Calif. : Strait)--1860-1870.
Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1.
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.87923
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b32810
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