North Portico of the White House

This hand-colored lithograph by Edward Weber & Co. shows the North Portico of the White House. It was done early in Zachary Taylor's presidency (1849-1850). The statue in the lower right corner is the statue of Thomas Jefferson commissioned by Navy Lieutenant Uriah Levy and sculpted in France by Pierre-Jean David dAngers. It was removed from the White House grounds in 1874 and placed first in National Statuary Hall and then in the Rotunda, both of which are in the Capitol Building.