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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation (Modern/modified Renaissance)] – Vintage Print

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation (Modern/modified Renaissance)], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation (Modern/modified Renaissance)], 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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A front elevation of the Library of Congress, rendered in wash on paper, presents the building's facade as a flat, measured design rather than a finished view. The library outgrew its quarters in the Capitol during the nineteenth century, and the building it moved into, the Jefferson Building, opened in 1897 after a long design and construction effort. The drawing's style label points to a modified Renaissance idiom, with symmetry, arched openings, and classical ornament. Elevations like this one showed builders and clients proportions and detail, while the wash shading suggests how light would fall across the stone.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : wash on paper.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 825 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123777

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