Capitol of Virginia, Richmond – Vintage Print
![Capitol of Virginia, Richmond, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f2/f2dc1311c550-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This antique engraving of Capitol of Virginia, Richmond brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Capitol of Virginia, Richmond
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Thomas Jefferson drew on the Maison Carrée, a Roman temple in Nîmes, France, when he helped design Virginia's state capitol in Richmond during the 1780s. The result gave an American legislature a classical portico that was rare at the time. The building became a model for later statehouses and a lasting symbol of the young republic's ideals. This steel engraving, a technique favored for fine architectural views in 19th-century books and periodicals, reproduces the building in printed form, though the card gives no date.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : steel engraving. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Capitol bldgs., Va.--Richmond; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,314 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131208 |
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