Category:Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
, also commonly known as Westward Ho!, is a 20-by-30-foot (6.1 m × 9.1 m) painted mural in the United States Capitol Building. It was painted by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868), a German-American history painter best known for Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). Commissioned by the U.S. Congress in 1860 and completed in 1861, the mural celebrates the idea of the Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States was destined for Western exploration and expansion originating from the initial colonies along the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. A preliminary oil study measuring 33 1⁄4 by 43 3⁄8 inches (84.5 cm × 110.2 cm) hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Depicts | manifest destiny, cattle, livestock, man, woman, Pilgrims, Golden Gate, San Francisco Bay, musket, horse, covered wagon, mountain, river, blanket, explorer, people and family | ||||
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Media in category "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"
The following 15 files are in this category, out of 15 total.
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Detail of cartoon for mural Westward the Course of Empire SAAM-1982.51 1.jpg 2,678 × 2,453; 1.57 MB
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Emanuel Leutze - Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (Central Section) - Capitol.png 2,761 × 1,378; 9.28 MB
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Emanuel Leutze - Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way - Capitol.jpg 3,000 × 2,014; 3.39 MB
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Emanuel Leutze - Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way - Smithsonian.jpg 4,000 × 3,087; 9.07 MB
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Smithsonian-Leutze-Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way-2121.jpg 4,586 × 3,729; 15.48 MB
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Westward (Leutze).JPG 2,040 × 1,530; 1.94 MB
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Westward Ho! by Emanuel Leutze, NA (NBY 23980).jpg 822 × 516; 73 KB
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Westward Ho! LCCN2009631512.jpg 1,536 × 1,165; 243 KB
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Westward Ho! LCCN2009631512.tif 1,536 × 1,165; 1.71 MB
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Westward the Course of Empire.jpg 528 × 402; 75 KB
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Westward.jpg 3,132 × 1,764; 2.12 MB
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WLA amart Westward the Course if Empire 1861 Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze.jpg 1,024 × 768; 586 KB
- Paintings by Emanuel Leutze
- Murals in Washington, D.C.
- Paintings in the United States Capitol
- Paintings by Emanuel Leutze in the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Wild West in art
- 1861 paintings in the United States
- Western United States
- Covered wagons in art
- Wagon trains
- 19th-century paintings of people in nature
- Manifest Destiny