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[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation] – Vintage Wall Art

[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation], 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 window into the past: [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Front elevation], preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Drawn in ink on paper, this sheet presents the front elevation of the Library of Congress as a flat, head-on view, the kind of drawing architects used to set a building's proportions, window placement, and ornament before construction began. The institution's main building, now called the Thomas Jefferson Building, was designed by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul J. Pelz and opened on Capitol Hill in 1897 in the Beaux-Arts style. Elevations like this one recorded the decisions about symmetry and detail that gave the finished facade its character, which makes them useful for understanding how the design took shape. The record describes this as a reference copy, so it reproduces a drawing for study rather than serving as the original.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
GenreReference copy in LOT 4249 (R).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,231 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172340

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