Post Office Dept Bldg: Intercommunication Between Europe & Africa tympanum in Washington, D.C. by Adolph Alexander Weinman located in James M. Goode's Federal Triangle area

Adolph Alexander Weinman(click name for more of that artist's work)
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Seated on the left & passing along a lamp symbolizing Knowledge is a male figure representing Europe.
The youth standing beside him with a book represents a spiritual presence, the Wisdom of Europe.
On the far left, Power is represented by a sphere held by a reclining Grecian female.
On the right side of the globe, receiving the Lamp of Knowledge is an Egyptian female representing Africa.
Beside her a youth holds a bundle [the bundle appears to have the head of a feline such as a tiger on it].
To the far right a reclining Egyptian male representing the sleeping Dark Continent leans on a jar from which water is flowing.
On his thigh rests the head of a crocodile whose tail extends behind the youth.
The Primitive Means of Communicationreliefs are visible below the pediment

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0000500/00624_0010018389 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

Seated on the left & passing along a lamp symbolizing Knowledge is a male figure representing Europe.
The youth standing beside him with a book represents a spiritual presence, the Wisdom of Europe.

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0000500/00624_0010018419 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

... On the far left, Power is represented by a sphere held by a reclining Grecian female.

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0000500/00624_0010018459 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

On the right side of the globe, receiving the Lamp of Knowledge is an Egyptian female representing Africa.
Beside her a youth holds a bundle [the bundle appears to have the head of a feline such as a tiger on it].

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0000500/00624_0010018429 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

To the far right a reclining Egyptian male representing the sleeping Dark Continent leans on a jar from which water is flowing.
On his thigh rests the head of a crocodile whose tail extends behind the youth.

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0000500/00624_0010018399 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

The Primitive Means of Communicationreliefs are visible below the pediment and barely visible around the corner to the right of the Eagleis the Delivery of the Mail by Daypanel.

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0000500/00624_0010018469 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

From the north with Intercommunication between America/Asiain the background

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0000500/00624_0000008840 (added ca. 2006)

From the south with The Delivery of Mail by Dayaround the corner to the right

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0000500/00624_0000008850 (added ca. 2006)

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0000500/00624_0010018479 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

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0000500/00624_0010018439 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

More Info
See James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture'(hardcover p 141 Item #4.17; Federal Triangle area);
'Outdoor Sculpture'(paperback p164 Item #D-20)
Medium: Limestone
Artist: Adolph Alexander Weinman(click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: Allegory, Mythology
Location: Courtyard bounded by 12th/14th Sts & Penn/Const Aves NW (Between Reagan & Dept of Post Office Bldgs) Washington, D.C.
See Federal Triangle areain James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle(Orange - Blue - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 66400081 (dcMem ID #624 )

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GSA website on Old Post Office Dept Bldg
ArtLex on New Deal Art

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