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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



No. 72. MARBLE GROUP AT THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON. 



When the main portion of the Capitol at Washington was completed, in 1846, a 

 semicolossal group in marble was placed upon the southern buttress of the eastern 

 portico at the right of the main entrance. It was carved in Italy, by Signor Fersico, 

 and cost $24,000; the first piece of statuary that was ever 

 purchased by the Government of the United States. An 

 armor-clad figure of the discoverer stands in a dramatic 

 posture, holding aloft in the right hand a small globe on 

 which is carved the word &quot;America.&quot; A nude Indian girl 

 crouches, awe-stricken, at his side. 



A bill has been introduced in the Congress of the United 

 States and has passed the Senate, appropriating $75,000 for 

 the erection of a monument at the western entrance to the 

 Capitol grounds at the head of Pennsylvania avenue, where 

 a &quot; peace monument 7 now stands. It is also proposed to 

 erect a &quot;triumphal arch&quot; in honor of Columbus at the crest 

 of the hill at the end of Sixteenth street. 



MARBLE GROUP. 



On Capitol steps, Washington. 



No. 73. THE STEBBINS STATUE. 



In 1867, a fine statue of Columbus was erected in Central 

 Park, New York, by Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts, as a gift to 



that city. It was designed and executed in Rome, by Miss Emma Stebbins, sister of 

 the Honorable Henry G. Stebbins, who also designed the fountain at the terrace in 

 the park. The statue is 7 feet high, and the base 31 inches. It represents Columbus 



COLUMBUS POINTING OUT THE LIGHT. 



in the garb of a sailor with a mantle thrown over his shoulder. The face is copied 

 from the accepted portraits of the Giovian type. 



No. 74. COLUMBUS POINTING OUT THE LIGHT. 



Mr. Napoleon Sarony, the well-known photographer of New York, has a beautiful 

 group by D. Anvers, of Naples, representing Columbus on the deck of his caraval, 

 pointing out the light he is said to have seen on the night before the discovery of land 

 to Pedro Gutierez, a gentleman of the king s bedchamber, who accompanied him on 

 the voyage. 



