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Architectural drawing for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Plan and elevation sketches – Antique Print

Architectural drawing for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Plan and elevation sketches, and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
Architectural drawing for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Plan and elevation sketches, 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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A window into the past: Architectural drawing for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Plan and elevation sketches, 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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Few early Capitol drawings show the building as clearly as this set of plan and elevation sketches, which includes an east front topped by a high dome. The sheets combine ink, wash, graphite and watercolor, and the plan came to the Library from Dr. William Thornton, the physician and amateur architect whose entry won a prize in the early 1790s design competition for the national legislative building. The design was later reworked by others, including James Hoban and Benjamin Latrobe, so the drawing records one of the competing visions for the city's central government building. The Library devised the title, and the date is inferred from the year of Thornton's prize.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 item : ink, wash, graphite, and watercolor ; in folder(s) 71 x 102 cm.
GenreUNIT title devised. One sketch shows elevation of East Front with high dome. Date based on year that Thornton received a prize for the drawing as indicated in P. Scott's Buildings of the District of Columbia, 1993, p. 115. Plan of the capitol received from Dr. Thornton
SubjectsUnited States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1790-1800. Capitols--Washington (D.C.)--1790-1800.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,093 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175784

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