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[Bank building (2nd Bank of the United States") Pennsylvania. Reflected ceiling plan]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Bank building (2nd Bank of the United States") Pennsylvania. Reflected ceiling plan]", 1818 — historic drawing
[Bank building (2nd Bank of the United States") Pennsylvania. Reflected ceiling plan]", 1818. Historic drawing from the Philadelphia collection.

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The Library's architectural collection holds this reflected ceiling plan for the Bank building of the Second Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, a view of the interior drawn as if the floor were a mirror. Congress chartered the bank in 1816 to stabilize the national currency, and the building was designed by William Strickland, whose Greek Revival work shaped American public architecture in the early 1800s. Dated 1818, the drawing predates the building's completion around 1824, so it records design decisions for the ceiling and its layout before construction changed them.

Created / published1818
MediumADE - UNIT 2546, no. 6 (D size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
Genreand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
NotesFor information see Architecture
SubjectsDesign
Original scan1,536 × 1,080 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173695

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