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(Great Hall. Detail of putti (gardener with a spade and a rake) on the Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.) ( )
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(Great Hall. Detail of putti (gardener with a spade and a rake) on the Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.) ( )

Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Great Hall. Detail of putti (gardener with a spade and a rake) on the Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. 2007. Notes: Exhibit caption: "The figures on the staircase are known as "putti" and represent the various occupations, habits, and pursuits of contemporary American life at the time when the Jefferson Building was built in the late nineteenth century. A putto (plural putti) is a figure of a pudgy human baby, almost always male, often naked and having wings, found especially in Italian Renaissance art. The four bottom figures include: A Gardener, with spade and rake; An Entomologist, with a specimen box slung over his shoulder, running to catch a butterfly in his net; A Student, with a book in his hand and a mortar board on his head; A Printer, with types, a press, and a type case. The four top figures include: A Musician, with a lyre by his side, studying pages of a music book; A Physician, grinding drugs in a mortar, with a distilling vessel beside him, and the serpent sacred to medicine; An Electrician, with a star of electric

Date
2007
Collection
Carol M. Highsmith Archive
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
photograph
Original size
1,024 × 767 pixels

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"(Great Hall. Detail of putti (gardener with a spade and a rake) on the Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.) ( )" (2007). Carol M. Highsmith Archive. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Great_Hall._Detail_of_putti_(gardener_with_a_spade_and_a_rake)_on_the_Grand_staircase_by_Philip_Martiny._Library_of_Congress_Thomas_Jefferson_Building,_Washington,_D.C.)_(LOC).jpg

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