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[Monuments, Washington, D.C. Sketch - elevation rendering of circular structure] – Historic Print

[Monuments, Washington, D.C. Sketch - elevation rendering of circular structure], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Monuments, Washington, D.C. Sketch - elevation rendering of circular structure], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". 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 [Monuments, Washington, D.C. Sketch - elevation rendering of circular structure], 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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This ink and wash drawing shows a circular structure drawn in elevation, meaning a flat, front-on view that shows height, profile, and proportion without perspective. Its title places it among sketches of monuments in Washington, D.C., a city that attracted many proposals for memorials and civic structures, especially in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawings like this one were often made to present a design to a commission or patron before construction, and the wash shading suggests how the mass and light of the structure would have looked. The Library of Congress holds it in its Prints and Photographs Division, where it is grouped with architectural and engineering drawings.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink and wash on paper.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,102 × 1,350 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175919

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