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Landscape architecture drawings for the United States Capitol grounds, Washington, D.C., 1824-1829
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2473
Extent: 4 items : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite ; in folder(s) 89 x 123 cm. or smaller.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Summary: Includes preliminary and working drawings showing site, Capitol building, western terrace, botanic garden, city canal, landscaping, and ironwork fences and gates as site plans, plans, and elevations; renderings.
Site plan, botanic garden, city canal, between 1824 and 1829
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2473, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: Capitol. Botanic garden. City Canal.
Note: Inscription on verso: Capitol Grounds.
Site plan, footprint, landscaping, between 1824 and 1829
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2473, no. 2 (D size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, ink, and graphite on paper.
Note: Inscription on verso: Capitol. General Plan.
Summary: Shows west terrace. Date 1825 per William Allen.
Elevations of fence and gate, between 1824 and 1829
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2473, no. 3 (D size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper.
Plan of Capitol grounds, between 1824 and 1829
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2473, no. 3v (D size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper.
East entrances to capitol square, between 1824 and 1829
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2473, no. 4 (E size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper.
Architectural drawings for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1819-1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474
Extent: 21 items : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite ; in folder(s) 89 x 123 cm. or smaller.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Summary: Includes measured, preliminary, and working drawings showing Capitol building, Library of Congress, north wing, south wing, south wing vestibule, House of Representatives seating and glass ceiling, portico, lower rotunda, dome, courts, crypt, stairways, column capitals, cornices, and sheet iron stove as plans, elevations, reflected ceiling plans, sections, and details; renderings.
Ground floor plan, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 1 (D size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
Note: Hand-copy of a measured drawing done by Charles Bulfinch is based on a ground floor plan by Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Note: Inscription on recto: Copy of, Ground plan of the Capitol of the U States; Showing the Projection and division of the Centre according to the plan of Mr Latrobe [Benjamin Henry Latrobe]. South wing. Lower Rotunda. North wing.
Note: Inscription on verso: Plans by Mr. Latrobe [Benjamin Henry Latrobe]
First floor plan, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 2 (D size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: Ground plan of the Capitol of the United States; showing the projection division of the Centre, according to the plan approved by the President, and in part executed. South wing. Lower Rotunda. North wing.
Floor plan showing rotunda and courts, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 3 (E size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, wash, and watercolor on paper.
Floor plan showing rotunda and courts, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 4 (D size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper.
Portico and south wing vestibule, plan, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 5 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
Note: Date ca. 1823-1824, per William Allen.
Reflected ceiling plan, rotunda - LC, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 6 (D size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper.
Note: Date ca. 1818, per William Allen.
Rotunda, section, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 7 (B size) (Cabinet B)
Extent: 1 drawing on paper : ink, wash, watercolor, and graphite ; 54.5 x 38 cm.
Note: Inscribed in ink: No. 2.
Note: Includes measurement notations in pencil: 301.6 circumference ; 96 ft. dia.
Note: Date ca. 1821-1822, per William Allen.
Summary: Architectural drawing showing "Principal story 40.8" and "Blocking course" of the rotunda section of the U.S. Capitol; also shows several pencil sketches of paintings, including a scene of George Washington reviewing the troops and a naval battle, and shows columns and arches in section beneath the rotunda.
Dome, elevation, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 8 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, wash, and graphite on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: No. 1.
Dome, elevation, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 9 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, wash, and graphite on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: No. 2.
Note: Date ca. 1820-1822, per William Allen.
Library and courts, variant scheme A, 1818
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 10 (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite on paper.
Floor plan - library, rotunda, committee rooms
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 11 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink and graphite on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: an inch to 32 f.
Note: Verso obscured by lining; notations include computations.
Library of Congress - variant scheme B, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 12 (B size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink and graphite on paper.
Note: Inscription on verso: Capitol Library.
South wing vestibule - floor plan, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 13 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: Vestibule of South wing. with plan of proposed improvements. 4 ft to an Inch.
Note: Shows Bulfinch's 1828 alterations, per William Allen.
South Wing vestibules and stairways, plan, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 14 (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper.
Note: Drawing shows Bulfinch's alterations, 1828, per William Allen.
House of Representatives seating plan (reversed), between 1821 and 1844
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 15 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink and graphite on paper.
Note: Verso obscured by lining.
House of Representatives seating plan, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 16 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink and wash on paper.
Note: 18th Congress, 1825 (William Allen).
Design for glass ceiling - House of Representatives, between 1819 and 1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2474, no. 17 (D size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
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