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[Elaborate church interior, possibly St. Luke's in Brooklyn, New York] – Vintage Print

[Elaborate church interior, possibly St. Luke's in Brooklyn, New York], [ca. 1850] — historic drawing
[Elaborate church interior, possibly St. Luke's in Brooklyn, New York], [ca. 1850]. Historic drawing from the Religious collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with [Elaborate church interior, possibly St. Luke's in Brooklyn, New York], a historic drawing rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Elaborate church interior, possibly St. Luke's in Brooklyn, New York]

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Rather than a photograph, this is an ink and watercolor drawing of a church interior, catalogued as a perspective projection, a type of drawing architects used to show a finished space before it was built. The record tentatively identifies the building as St. Luke's in Brooklyn, New York, but the attribution is uncertain, and the collection has not yet catalogued the drawing in detail. Views like this, made around 1850, reflect the period's enthusiasm for ornate church design, when Gothic Revival and related styles shaped how congregations imagined their sanctuaries.

Created / published[ca. 1850]
Medium1 drawing : ink and watercolor.
GenrePerspective projections 1840-1860.Watercolors 1840-1860.
NotesUnprocessed in PR 13 CN 1996:112.UNID.2
SubjectsChurches--New York (State)--New York--1840-1860. Interiors--New York (State)--New York--1840-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,167 × 1,475 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218425

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