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(digital file from original drawing)
LC-USZC2-111
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(color film copy slide, after restoration)
LC-USZC4-249
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(color film copy transparency, before restoration)
LC-USZ62-7262
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ADE - UNIT 2564,
no. 3
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry,
1764-1820,
architect.
[The White House ("President's House") Washington, D.C.
South front elevation]
[graphic] /
Jan. 1817, B H Latrobe.
Elevation of the south front of the President's house.
1817 Jan.
1 drawing on paper :
watercolor, wash, and ink ;
54 x 41 cm.
View of the South Portico as proposed by Latrobe, with axial stairway, later modified in construction.
Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures--Imagination": The President's House. Thomas Jefferson appointed Benjamin Henry Latrobe "Surveyor of the Public Buildings" of the United States, making him responsible for the completion of the Capitol and the White House, among other projects. A brilliant designer and consummate draftsman, Latrobe is considered the father of the architecture and engineering professions in this country. In this elevation he proposes the sophisticated transformation of the White House from the simple rectangular block erected by James Hoban to the porticoed building today recognized around the world as the home of the president of the United States.
Title devised by Library staff.
Inscriptions: "Elevation of the South front of the President's house, copied from the design as proposed to be altered in 1807" -- "Je n'aime [...] ne courez pas."
Watermark: T G & Co.
Restricted access.
Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original drawing is too fragile to serve.
The architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Jeffrey A. Cohen and Charles E. Brownell,
D79
Reference copy available in LOT 4249-R.
No known restrictions on publication.
Forms part of: Architectural drawings for the White House... in the Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
White House (Washington, D.C.)
1800-1810.
Official residences
Washington (D.C.)
1810-1820.
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Architectural drawings
1810-1820.
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Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
Architectural drawings for The White House ("President's House") Washington, D.C.
(DLC) 95860816
Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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digital file from original drawing
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09502
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09502
digital file from color film copy slide, after restoration
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3b48024
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48024
digital file from color film copy transparency, before restoration
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3b51830
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b51830
digital file from b&w film copy neg., before restoration
cph
3a52055
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a52055
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L4105 #140
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(B size) (Cabinet B)
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