Powell's De Soto and United States
History
Endnotes
Original Conception: John Dyer
First Extension: Eric J. Gislason
Images of William H. Powell's 12' x 18' Discovery of the
Mississippi
A.D. 1541 from the Architect of the Capitol's Art in the
United
States Capitol, Washington: US Printing Office, 1978.
Purchased
by Congress and placed in the Rotunda on February 16, 1855.
Map of DeSoto's journey from Albornoz, Miguel. Hernando
DeSoto, Knight
of the Americas. New York: Franklin Watts, 1986. Inside
cover.
Richard Caton Woodville's Old '76 and Young '48 from
The West As
America William Truettner, Ed. Washington: Smithsonian,
1991. 109.
John Trumbull's The Death of General Warren at the Battle of
Bunker
Hill and The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on
Quebec
from Cooper, Helen. John Trumbull, Hand an Spirit of a
Painter.
New Haven: Yale UP. 1982. 36.
Jacques-Louis David's The Oath of the Horatti and John
Singleton
Copley's The Death of the Earl of Chatham from Cooper,
Helen.
John Trumbull, Hand and Spirit of a Painter. New Haven:
Yale UP. 1982. 28 and 33.
1. Abbot, John S. C.
Ferdinand DeSoto, The Discoverer of the
Mississippi. 1873. Pref.
2. Fryd, Vivien
Green. Art & Empire. New Haven: Yale
UP, 1992. 59.
3. Fryd, Vivien
Green. Art & Empire. New Haven:
Yale UP, 1992. 568.
4. Putnam's
Monthly 3. (January 1854): 117.
5. Putnam's
Monthly 3. (January 1854): 120.
6. Putnam's
Monthly 3. (January 1854): 118-119.
7. Fryd, Vivien
Green. Art & Empire. New Haven: Yale
UP, 1992. 225n63.
8. Putnam's Monthly
3. (January 1854): 120.
9. Congressional
Globe. 29th Congress, 2nd Session. March
2, 1847. 56-58.
10. John
Trumbull The Hand and Spirit of a Painter.
Helen A Cooper, Ed. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982. 32.
11. John
Trumbull The Hand and Spirit of a Painter.
Helen A Cooper, Ed. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982. 80.
12. John
Trumbull The Hand and Spirit of a Painter.
Helen A Cooper, Ed. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982. 271.
13. Gerdts,
William H. "The Duesseldorf Connection." Grand Illusions.
Forth Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1988. 154-155.
14. The West As
America. William Truettner, Ed.
Washington: Simthsonian, 1991. 109.
15. Johannsen,
Robert. To The Halls of the Montezumas.
New York: Oxford UP, 1985. 212-213.
16. The West As
America. William Truettner, Ed.
Washington: Simthsonian, 1991. 110.