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Pencil sketch of a tree-lined avenue and distant town – Antique Print

Pencil sketch of a tree-lined avenue and distant town — historic image
Pencil sketch of a tree-lined avenue and distant town. Historic image from the Washington DC collection.

(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: Pencil sketch of a tree-lined avenue and distant town, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Pencil sketch of a tree-lined avenue and distant town

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A pencil sketch of a tree-lined avenue opening onto a distant town, filed under Washington, D.C., invites a look at how the city's broad streets were drawn before photography and print reproduction made such views common. Avenues lined with rows of trees were a deliberate feature of the capital's plan, laid out in the late 1700s by Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who paired a grid of streets with diagonal avenues meant to link government buildings and open vistas. A sketch like this one records that ambition in a loose, personal hand, showing how the eye was meant to travel down a long green corridor toward the town beyond. The record gives no artist or date, so its exact origin remains open, but the subject ties it closely to the city's early design.

Original scan1,416 × 1,143 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217660

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