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[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Sketch at Norfolk and description]" – Vintage Photo Print

[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Sketch at Norfolk and description]", [between 1795 and 1799] — historic drawing
[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Sketch at Norfolk and description]", [between 1795 and 1799]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive 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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Few of Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Virginia sketches name a client as plainly as this one, which records a house designed for Captain William Pennock on Main Street in Norfolk. The drawing belongs to a group of studies Latrobe made of buildings erected or proposed across Virginia in the late 1790s, when the English-born architect was building his practice in the state. Norfolk was rebuilding after a fire in 1794 that destroyed much of the town, and sketches like this one document the domestic architecture of that effort. The wash and graphite work shows how Latrobe worked out his designs before they reached the builder.

Created / published[between 1795 and 1799]
Medium1 drawing : wash, watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper.
NotesInscriptions: Design of the House of Captain William Pennock in the Main street
SubjectsForms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress)."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,078 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175676

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