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[White House, Washington, D.C. Sketch - President's house/executive offices, south elevation] – Antique Wall Art

[White House, Washington, D.C. Sketch - President's house/executive offices, south elevation], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[White House, Washington, D.C. Sketch - President's house/executive offices, south elevation], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic drawing from the White House 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 [White House, Washington, D.C. Sketch - President's house/executive offices, south elevation], 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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The south elevation shows the garden-side face of the President's House, the view most often seen from the Ellipse. The record notes miscellaneous studies on the reverse, a detail worth noticing because architects often reused sheets and annotated both sides. The building traces to a design by Irish-born architect James Hoban, selected in a competition in 1792, and it was rebuilt after British troops set it on fire in 1814. The sheet belongs to the Library of Congress's Architecture, Design and Engineering drawings.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
GenreMiscellaneous studies on verso (ADE - UNIT 2465, no. 1v). Reference copy in LOT 4249 (R).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,077 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175915

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