Monticello, The East Portico – Historic Reproduction
(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: Monticello, The East Portico, preserved in this antique engraving. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Monticello, The East Portico
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Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's hilltop home near Charlottesville, Virginia, is shown here from its east portico, the side that greets visitors arriving up the approach. Jefferson designed the house himself, drawing on Palladian models he had studied in books, and he spent roughly four decades building and rebuilding it. By the late 1880s, when this engraving appeared in the Century magazine, the house had passed out of the family's hands and was receiving growing attention as a national landmark, so the picture reflects the renewed public interest in Jefferson's life and work.
| Created / published | c. 1887 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, engraving |
| Notes | Illus. in Century magazine, May 1887 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,608 × 2,780 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181498 |
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