Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Building East Wing
- Hornblower & Marshall
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See Field, Stamm and Ewing, The Castle: An Illustrated History, p. 46; U.S. National Museum Report 1903, p. 233.
- Summary
- The Art Room in the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building, created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley. The furnishings were specially designed by Hornblower and Marshall. Encircling the room was a plaster copy of the Parthenon frieze and carbon photographs by Adolphe Braun of Old Master portraits and paintings.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 20
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1903
- Standard number
- 16854 or MAH-16854
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Interiors
- Smithsonian Institution Building--Art Room
- Art Collection
- Prints
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10793
