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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Perspective rendering] – Antique Wall Art

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Perspective rendering], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Perspective rendering], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic drawing from the Library of Congress 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: [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Perspective rendering], preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Perspective rendering]

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Rather than a photograph, this is a perspective rendering, a drawing of the Library of Congress reproduced by heliotype, a photomechanical process that allowed architects and publishers to make many copies of a design. Renderings like this showed a building as a viewer would see it, helping clients and the public picture a structure before or during its construction. The Library's main building, the Thomas Jefferson Building, was erected in the 1890s and opened in 1897 in an ornate Beaux-Arts style, so drawings from that period document one of Washington's most lavish civic projects.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : heliotype on paper.
GenreReference copy in LOT 4249 (R).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,068 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-171681

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