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[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Senate dome, framing plan and sections] – Vintage Wall Art

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Senate dome, framing plan and sections], [between 1815 and 1817] — historic drawing
[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Senate dome, framing plan and sections], [between 1815 and 1817]. Historic drawing from the Washington DC 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 [United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Senate dome, framing plan and sections], a historic drawing rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The Senate dome shown here is one of the sheets from Benjamin Henry Latrobe's work on the United States Capitol, which he supervised after the British burned the building in 1814. Drawn in ink, watercolor, and graphite between about 1815 and 1817, the plan and sections set out how the timber framing of the Senate chamber's dome would be assembled, and the handwritten computations along the sheet show the structural arithmetic behind it. Latrobe, a trained English-born architect who had settled in America, was rebuilding the Capitol in a period when its wooden roof framing and masonry walls were still being sorted out, so drawings like this one carried real weight on site.

Created / published[between 1815 and 1817]
Medium1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper.
GenreArchitectural drawings 1810-1820.
NotesNotations include computations; verso obscured. Forms part of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,134 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112251

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