[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Perspective of hall and stairway]" – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Perspective of hall and stairway]", [between 1795 and 1799] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/96/96cf743788c8-L.webp)
(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 ink and watercolor drawing shows the hall and staircase of a house built for William Pennock, as the inscription on its face identifies. It belongs to a group of designs by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the English-trained architect who settled in Virginia in 1795, and the series is labeled as buildings erected or proposed there. Latrobe's perspective views were presentation drawings meant to let clients see a finished interior before construction began. The sheet is especially useful for studying how late-eighteenth-century American architects adapted neoclassical ideas about light, proportion, and stair design to domestic settings.
| Created / published | [between 1795 and 1799] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper. |
| Genre | Architectural drawings 1790-1800. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress)." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,074 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175680 |
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