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[Library of Congress (National Library") Washington D.C. Perspective rendering]" – Historic Print

[Library of Congress (National Library") Washington D.C. Perspective rendering]", ADE - UNIT 2445, no. 19 (F size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items) — historic drawing
[Library of Congress (National Library") Washington D.C. Perspective rendering]", ADE - UNIT 2445, no. 19 (F size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items). Historic drawing from the Library of Congress collection.

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This perspective rendering shows the Library of Congress as an architect pictured it before stone was laid, a drawing meant to sell a design as much as to record it. It belongs to the Library's architectural and engineering drawings, where renderings like this let officials and the public judge a building's massing, facades, and setting ahead of construction. The Library's main building in Washington, the Jefferson Building, opened in 1897 after years of planning, so drawings from this stage of the institution's history show how the grand Beaux-Arts design was first imagined. The record is incomplete on date and authorship, so the exact stage this view represents is worth checking against the Library's catalog.

Created / publishedADE - UNIT 2445, no. 19 (F size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
Medium2002711908
Genreand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
NotesFor information see Architecture
SubjectsDesign
Original scan1,536 × 912 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138023

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