A practical guide to the Library of Congress paintings : with 92 key pictures and other illustrations and the library quotations
A practical guide published in Washington in 1903 by Foster & Reynolds, written for visitors to the Library of Congress to explain its mural paintings and the quotations inscribed alongside them. The pictures are halftone reproductions of lunette and dome murals, several printed sideways, showing allegorical figures in classical draped robes arranged in arches and semicircles. A designer might take from them the lunette format, the composition of seated and reclining figures filling curved spaces, and the restrained grisaille-like palette of early twentieth-century American mural decoration.
