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United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., East Front Elevation – Historic Reproduction

United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., East Front Elevation — historic drawing
United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., East Front Elevation. Historic drawing from the U.S. Capitol 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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A window into the past: United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., East Front Elevation, preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., East Front Elevation

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The East Front elevation shows the Capitol as its architects intended it to look from the approach along the Mall, drawn as a finished presentation view rather than a sketch of the building as it stood. Alexander Jackson Davis, an architect and draftsman who worked for several Capitol designers in the 1830s, produced the rendering in 1834, when the building's central section was still under construction and the great dome had not yet been built. The ink and watercolor wash give the stone walls, portico and wings a soft, carefully modeled look, and the drawing is valuable to historians for recording the intended design during the years when the Capitol was being expanded and reshaped.

Mediumdrawing, ink, watercolor, and wash on paper
NotesAlexander Jackson Davis. Rendering [1834]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,393 × 2,700 px · prints to 11 × 9 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217579

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