Plan of a Washington Monument

John William Orr American, born Ireland
 Monument designed by William Wallace American
 Publisher C. G. Graham and Co. American

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This monument has a square base supporting a portrait of Washington and allegorical statues representing the continents at the corners between flights of steps. Above there is a circular temple with thirteen columns supporting a globe with a statue of Washington at the appex. The design is set within a park and a church spire appears in the distance at right. Presumably this is a proposed alternate plan for the national monument to George Washington built in Washington DC 1848-56, and 1876-84.

Plan of a Washington Monument, John William Orr (American (born, Ireland) 1815–1887 Jersey City, New Jersey), Wood engraving

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