This section of the Architect of the Capitol Web site offers downloadable high-quality digital images in JPEG format. These images are in the public domain and, unless otherwise noted, may be used without permission for educational, scholarly, or personal (i.e., nonpromotional, nonadvertising) purposes.

A detail or cropped image may not be used in a publication unless (a) it is clearly identified as a detail or cropped version of the larger work and (b) the full image appears elsewhere in the publication.

When any of these images is used in print or electronic publications, the photographic credit line should read “Architect of the Capitol.” If an image requires additional use permission, a note to that effect appears on the relevant download page.

These images may not be used in any way that would imply endorsement by the Architect of the Capitol or the United States Congress of a product, service, or point of view.

Works of Art

• Paintings and Murals
• • Rotunda Paintings (Baptism of Pocahontas, Declaration of Independence, Discovery of the Mississippi, Embarkation of the Pilgrims, General George Washington Resigning His Commission, Landing of Columbus, Surrender of General Burgoyne, and Surrender of Lord Cornwallis)
    
  • The Apotheosis of George Washington, the Rotunda canopy fresco
    
  • The Frieze of American History in the Rotunda
    
  • Murals in the Cox Corridors
  • Frescoes and Paintings in the Brumidi Corridors
  • Signing of the Constitution by Howard Chandler Christy
  • Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way by Emanuel Leutze
• Portraits
• Sculpture
• • The Statue of Freedom
  • Relief Portrait Plaques of Lawgivers in the House of Representatives Chamber
  • Relief Sculptures in the Rotunda (John Cabot; Christopher Columbus; Sir Walter Raleigh; René Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle; Conflict of Daniel Boone and the Indians, 1773; William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, 1682; Landing of the Pilgrims, 1620; Preservation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas, 1606)
  • Statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection
  • Other Sculpture

Views of the United States Capitol (exterior and interior)

Architectural Drawings

Photographs of Historical Events