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Architectural drawings for an institutional or factory building, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2529
Extent: 3 items : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Note: Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Summary: Working drawings showing institutional or factory building with battlemented roofline, work or day room, nursery, matron's room, wash room, dining room, and officer's dining room as plans and perspective projections; sketches.
Floor plan, between 1830 and 1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2529, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: Work room ; Work or day room ; Nursery ; Matron's room ; Wash room ; Laundry ; Dining room ; Officer's dining room.
Partial floor plan, roof, and sketches, between 1830 and 1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2529, no. 2 (B size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper.
Floor plan, between 1830 and 1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2529, no. 3 (B size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper.
Architectural drawing for a molding, 1790-1844
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2530
Extent: 1 item : graphite and ink ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Architectural drawing for a molding, 1790-1844
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2530, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 item : graphite and ink.
Note: Date based on span of years Bulfinch was active as an architect.
Summary: Template for molding.
Drawing showing landscape and perspective studies of furnished rooms, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2531
Extent: 1 item : graphite and ink ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Drawing showing landscape and perspective studies of furnished rooms, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2531, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : graphite and ink.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Summary: Drawing showing landscape and furnished rooms as perspective projections; sketch and rendering.
Architectural drawing for a gate, White House grounds, Washington, D.C., 1818-1829
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2532
Extent: 1 item : graphite ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Note: Drawing not signed; attribution and date from W. Seale's, The President's house, a history, 1986.
Summary: Working drawing showing gate as plan and elevation.
Elevation of gate
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2532, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite on paper.
Gate partial plan
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2532, no. 1v (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite on paper.
Note: Inscription: "present Stone wall"
Architectural drawing for a gothic-style column with octagonal base and foliate capital, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2533
Extent: 1 item : ink ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Architectural drawing for a gothic-style column with octagonal base and foliate capital, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2533, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : ink.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Summary: Preliminary drawing showing column base and capital as elevations and details.
Architectural drawing for framing of a building, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2534
Extent: 1 item : ink ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Architectural drawing for framing of a building, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2534, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : ink.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Summary: Working drawing showing building and framing as plan; structural drawing.
Design drawing for a pier table, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2535
Extent: 2 items : ink and graphite ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm. or smaller.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Summary: Working drawing showing pier table as elevations.
Table elevation
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2535, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink and graphite on paper.
Note: Mounted on paper.
Side elevation of pier table
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2535, no. 2 (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink and graphite on paper.
Side elevation of pier table
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2535, no. 2v (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite on paper.
Architectural drawing for a house, 1858
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2536
Extent: 1 item : graphite ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Summary: Preliminary drawing showing site, house, outbuildings, and driveway, as site plan.
Site plan
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2536, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite on paper.
Drawings
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2536, no. 1v (B size)
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite on paper.
Note: "Pike's Store" inscribed on verso.
Note: Notations include computations.
Architectural drawing for alterations to a church ("St. John's Church"), Washington, D.C., 1818
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2537
Extent: 1 item : ink, wash, and graphite ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Section, 1818
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2537, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 item : ink, wash, and graphite.
Note: Drawing not signed; attribution based on provenance.
Note: Church originally designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Summary: Working drawing showing church as section.
Architectural drawing for a commercial building, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2538
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Architectural drawing for a commercial building, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2538, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Summary: Working drawing showing commercial building and framing as plans, and elevation; structural drawing.
Architectural drawing of a church ("St. Stephen's Walbrook"), London, England, 1786
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2539
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Floor plan, 1786
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2539, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite.
Note: Address and date from C. Place's Charles Bulfinch, 1925.
Note: Church designed by Christopher Wren.
Summary: Measured drawing showing church, organ loft, porch, chancel, and dome as plans.
Architectural drawing for a church, 1791-1828
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
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