Smithsonian Institution Building West Range with Shindler Portraits

Summary

The West Range of the Smithsonian Institution Building, which had formerly served as part of the Gallery of Art, arranged to display ethnological specimens of North American Indian workmanship along with artifacts from China, Japan and prehistoric France for purposes of comparison. Along the arcades hang portraits depicting American Indian delegates, who visited Washington between 1858 and 1869, painted by United States National Museum artist Antonio Zeno Shindler. At the end of the hall hangs a large portrait of the French historian and statesman Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot painted by George Peter Alexander Healey.

Subject

• Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno) 1823-1899
• Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
• Smithsonian Institution Building West Range

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

• Published in "The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building" by Cynthia R. Field, Richard E. Stamm, and Heather P. Ewing, p. 104. Page 105 shows an additional view of this hall looking east (private collection).
• Original Negative Number is 60144.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder: 21

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1871

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Ethnology
• Exhibitions
• Interiors
• Native American portraits

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exhibit

ID Number

95-20765 or 60144

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 7 1/2w x 7 1/2h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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