Bronze Door. - Senate Portico of Capitol, Washington. - Designed by Crawford. The panels commemorate: The Death of Warren at Bunker Hill, 1775; Washington's Rebuke of Gen. Charles Lee at Monmouth, 1778; hamilton's Gallentry at Yorktown, 1781; Washingotn's Reception at Trenton, when on the way to his Inauguration as First President, 1789; Washington's First Inauguration, 1789; Laying the Corner Stoen of the Capitol, Sept, 18, 1793. The panels below contian allegories of War (struggle between a Hessian and a setler), and Peace. |