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[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. North wing - vestibule with colonnade section] – Antique Wall Art

[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. North wing - vestibule with colonnade section], [between 1815 and 1817] — historic drawing
[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. North wing - vestibule with colonnade section], [between 1815 and 1817]. 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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The vestibule and colonnade of the Capitol's north wing, the section that housed the Senate, are the focus of this drawing, which Benjamin Henry Latrobe prepared sometime between 1815 and 1817. Those years followed the British burning of the Capitol in 1814, when Latrobe, who had been supervising the building since 1803, took on the work of restoring and redesigning the damaged interiors. The careful combination of ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite shows how he worked out both structure and surface decoration before construction. The drawing is part of the Latrobe Archive at the Library of Congress, and it offers a useful record of the building as he planned it during reconstruction.

Created / published[between 1815 and 1817]
Medium1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper.
GenreArchitectural drawings 1810-1820.
NotesForms part of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress)."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan804 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175869

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