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[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Plan of the chamber and ground stories]" – Vintage Wall Art

[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Plan of the chamber and ground stories]", [between 1795 and 1799] — historic drawing
[Houses and a church (Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"). Plan of the chamber and ground stories]", [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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This sheet sets out the ground-floor and upper-floor plans of a house, with its rooms labeled in ink: a hall and staircase, a drawing room, a dining room, and an office, along with a separate plan of the chamber story. Benjamin Henry Latrobe drew it between 1795 and 1799, when he had recently emigrated from England and was establishing his practice in Virginia. The title, which refers to "Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia," shows that it belonged to a set of designs for projects in the state. Latrobe's careful plans from these years helped introduce a more formal, European-trained approach to domestic architecture in the young republic.

Created / published[between 1795 and 1799]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor and ink on paper.
GenreArchitectural drawings 1790-1800.
SubjectsForms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress)."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,046 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175678

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