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and canopy… is perhaps the most pleasing assemblage of objects that catch the eye in the whole room." Latrobe adds that, "To give an adequate idea of a building by a description unaccompanied by drawings, is always a vain attempt, and no one who has not seen the Hall of Congress can, from what I have said, understand exactly the effect and appearance of the room." 17 RICHARD CHENOWETH AIA is a nationally recog- nized architect and artist with a deep interest in historical topics as well as the architecture and landscape of Washington, DC, where he lived for nearly 20 years. His design for the Washington, DC Metro canopy program has been replicated numerous times around the Washington region. Richard's research into the Jefferson-Latrobe era Capitol (1803-1814), which resulted in a detailed interactive digital reconstruction of the Capitol, was supported in part by two U.S. Capitol Historical Society Fellowships. His first article on the subject was published in the Fall 2014 issue of The Capitol Dome. An earlier version of this paper was published in the French journal Le Libellio d'Aegis, v. 8, 2 (Summer 2012):67-74. 13 THE CAPITOL DOME Fig. 16. Author's recreation of Sitting Liberty (clay, 2011) AUTHOR'S INTERPRETATION OF THE LATROBE-FRANZONI SITTING LIBERTY: My project to recreate the Jefferson-Madison Capitol, the one that was burned in 1814 and was never visually depicted or recorded, required that I include the Statue of Liberty that was in the House of Representatives chamber.* Based on the parameters from the drawing and letters, ideas of dress and style, and a deep understand- ing of Latrobe's aesthetics, I sculpted this first Statue of Liberty myself. It was scanned three- dimensionally by a computer science professor from Princeton University. *See Richard Chenoweth, "The Most Beautiful Room in the World? Latrobe, Jefferson, and the First Capitol," The Capitol Dome, v. 51, 3 (Fall 2014):23-39.