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The Neptune Fountain At The Library Of Congress - North Nymph Framed Print
by Cora Wandel
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The Neptune Fountain At The Library Of Congress - North Nymph framed print by Cora Wandel. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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The dramatic Neptune Fountain is in front of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, directly across the street from the United States Capitol. ... more
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Artist's Description
The dramatic Neptune Fountain is in front of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, directly across the street from the United States Capitol. Also known as The Court of Neptune, in the center of the fountain is the majestic King of the Sea, a large, muscular man riding a horse and surrounded by his sons the tritons blowing conches. On each side of the men are frolicking sea nymphs, or Naiads, also on horseback and enjoying riding through water that is full of sea serpents, frogs, turtles, and playful jets of water shooting throughout the basin.
This photograph is of the nymph on the north side of the fountain.
The bronze sculptors in the fountain were made by Roland Hinton Perry, a 27 year-old New Yorker who completed everything, including the fountain, in 1898, one year after the Library of Congress opened (there had been two buildings holding the Library of Congress before 1898; unfortunately, both were destroyed by fire, including the first building that fe...
About Cora Wandel
I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...
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