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

[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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This rare historic drawing captures [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Perspective rendering] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The subject here is the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., presented as a perspective rendering, a drawing meant to show how a building would look once finished. Architects and their offices used such views to help clients, committees and the public picture a proposed design before construction began. This one is drawn in ink on linen, a durable support that held up to repeated handling. The library had long outgrown its quarters in the U.S. Capitol, and a building of its own was needed, so renderings like this one helped make that ambition visible.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink on linen.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,308 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190491

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