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Elevation of the south front of the President's house. – Antique Wall Art

Elevation of the south front of the President's house., 1817 Jan. — historic drawing
Elevation of the south front of the President's house., 1817 Jan.. Historic drawing from the White House 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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Elevation of the south front of the President's house. comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Unlike the building's familiar north entrance, this drawing shows the south front, the side that looks over the gardens toward the Potomac. The sheet is a copy, made in January 1817, of a design Benjamin Henry Latrobe had proposed in 1807 for altering the house. Latrobe, who worked on the President's House and the Capitol, left a large body of drawings that shows how the building was planned, revised, and rebuilt. Because the British burned the house in 1814, drawings like this one record the architect's intentions for a building that was later restored and altered in ways that differ from the original plans.

Created / published1817 Jan.
Medium1 drawing on paper : watercolor, wash, and ink ; 54 x 41 cm.
GenreD79 Reference copy available in LOT 4249-R. Forms part of: Architectural drawings for the White House... in the Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress."
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Inscriptions: Elevation of the South front of the President's house
Subjectscopied from the design as proposed to be altered in 1807" -- "Je n'aime [...] ne courez pas." Watermark: T G & Co. The architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Jeffrey A. Cohen and Charles E. Brownell
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan6,386 × 4,893 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi
Referencetif09502_ElevationofthesouthfrontoftheP

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