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35 1. Neil Bingham, C.A. Busby: The Regency Ar- chitect of Brighton & Hove (London, 1991), pp. 45-6; 52-5; Theodore Sizer, "John Trumbull, Amateur Architect," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 8(Jul.-Dec. 1949):1-6. The only other original printing of Busby's plan known to exist, in addition to Shattuck's, was sold recently by a dealer, Boston Rare Maps, and remains in private hands. 2. Theodore Sizer, ed., The Autobiography of Col- onel John Trumbull, Patriot-Artist, 1756-1843 (1841; reprinted, New Haven, CT, 1953). Irma B. Jaffe's John Trumbull: Patriot Artist of the American Revolu- tion (Boston, 1975) is the outstanding biography of the artist. Helen A. Cooper, ed., John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter (New Haven, CT, 1982) compiled essays by several Trumbull scholars, including Egon Verheyen's excellent "John Trumbull and the U.S. Capitol: Reconsidering the Evidence," pp. 260-280. Verheyen did not illustrate Busby's etching nor explicitly state that they reflected an alternative Bulfinch design. 3. Several modern studies of the history of Trumbull's Rotunda paintings begin with Charles E. Fairman's Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America (Washington, DC, 1927), pp. 53- 63; Jaffe, Trumbull, pp. 236-63; Jules David Prown, "John Trumbull as History Painter," in Cooper, Trumbull, pp. 73-90. 4. Benjamin Henry Latrobe to John Trumbull, 22 Jan. 1817, in John C. Van Horne, et al., eds., The Cor- respondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (New Haven, CT, 1988) 3:856-7; 942- 4; 951-4. 5. Charles Bulfinch to James Monroe, 26 Nov. 1817, NARA, RG 42, Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Park of the National Capitol, Entry 1, Letters Received; Harold Kirker, The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch, (Cambridge, MA, 1969), pp. 321-40. 6. William B. Bushong, ed., Glenn Brown's His- tory of the United States Capitol (Washington, DC, 1998), p. 160; Pamela Scott, Temple of Liberty: Build- ing the Capitol for a New Nation (New York and Oxford, 1995) 61-3; Scott, "Charles Bulfinch: Well-Connected, Refined Gentleman Architect," in Donald R. Kennon, ed., The United States Cap- itol: Designing and Decorating a National Icon (Athens, OH, 2000), pp. 56-84; William C. Allen, History of the United States Capitol (Washington, DC, 2001), p. 151; Damie Stillman, "The United States Capitol: Icon of the Republic," in C. Ford Peatross, et al., eds., Capital Drawings: Archi- tectural Designs for Washington, D.C., from the Library of Congress (Baltimore, 2005), pp. 73-5. 7. Sizer, Autobiography of Trumbull, p. 266. 8. Clay Lancaster, "New York City Hall Stair Rotunda Reconsidered," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 29(Mar. 1970):33-9. 9. Sizer, Autobiography of Trumbull, p. 263. 10. Ibid., p. 264. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid., p. 266. 13. Ibid., p. 264. 14. Ibid., p. 265. 15. Ibid., p. 267. The author is working on a book about Bulfinch's eleven years in Washington, its centerpiece his completion of the Capitol and its grounds between 1817 and 1829. IMAGE CREDITS: Fig. 1. Brian Shattuck Fig. 2. Library of Congress, Prints & Photo- graphs Division, [LC-DIG-ppmsca-19868] Fig. 3. From negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston (for Glenn Brown), [ca. 1900-03], in William B. Bushong, ed., Glenn Brown's History of the United States Capitol (Washington, DC, 1998), p. 161. Fig. 4. Library of Congress, Prints & Photo- graphs Division, [LC-DIG-ppmsca-40461] Fig. 5. Library of Congress, Prints & Photo- graphs Division, [LC-USZC4-172] Fig. 6. John Trumbull, detail, "Sketch of Paint- ings in Vestibule", John Trumbull Papers, Box 1-Folder 7, New-York Historical Society. Photogra- phy (c)New-York Historical Society. Fig. 7. A rthur Drooker Fig. 8. John Trumbull, "Center Building of the Capitol", 1818, Album File (PR2), The Trumbull Album (vol. 466, #60, folder: 7), New-York Histor- ical Society. Photography (c)New-York Historical Society. Fig. 9. John Trumbull, "Section Sketch, Two- Story Vestibule", 1818, Album File (PR2), The Trumbull Album (vol. 466, #62, folder: 8), New- York Historical Society. Photography (c)New-York Historical Society. Notes THE CAPITOL DOME