Architectural drawing for a commercial building with ashlar masonry. Front elevation rendering – Vintage Wall Art
(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 window into the past: Architectural drawing for a commercial building with ashlar masonry. Front elevation rendering, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Architectural drawing for a commercial building with ashlar masonry. Front elevation rendering
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A front elevation rendered in ink, watercolor, and wash shows a commercial building whose facade is laid in ashlar masonry, with dressed stone blocks set in even courses. The drawing was previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch, the Boston architect known for the Massachusetts State House, though the record does not confirm that attribution. Stone fronts like this one were a way for merchants and builders in the decades before the Civil War to present a business as solid and lasting. Renderings of this kind, with their washed shading and careful linework, were often prepared to show clients how a finished street facade would look before construction began.
| Created / published | and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." |
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| Medium | 1 item : ink, watercolor, and wash ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm. |
| Genre | UNIT title devised. Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch. Date from information in P&P Curatorial Files. Reference copy available in LOT 4249 (R). Forms part of Charles Bulfinch Archive (Library of Congress). Permanent deposit; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 1935; (DLC/PP-1935:069?). Finding aid (unpublished): Filed by UNIT number, available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room. |
| Subjects | Commercial facilities--1830-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 741 × 1,536 px · prints to 2 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118190 |
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