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Architectural drawings for a two-story house with piazza, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2489
Extent: 2 items : ink, watercolor, graphite, and wash ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Note: Drawings previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Summary: Working drawings showing house as plans and elevations.
Chamber floor plan, between 1830 and 1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2489, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper.
Plan of Piazza
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2489, no. 2 (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink and watercolor on paper.
Note: Inscription: "9 feet Piazza"
Front and side elevation of building
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2489, no. 2v (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, wash, and graphite on paper.
Architectural drawing for a monument, 1810-1832
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2490
Extent: 1 item.
Front elevation, 1810-1832
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2490, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : ink, watercolor, and graphite on paper.
Note: Date based on design style and date of last known work.
Note: Inscription: "Price for this without letters 131$ If pyramid 2 x 2 ft & 4 f high [...] --G.B.", :20"
Summary: Working drawing showing monument as elevation and detail; sketch for alternate tops.
Sketch of wood joining detail, 1810-1832
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2490, no. 1v (A size)
Extent: 1 item : graphite on paper.
Note: Notes include computations.
Architectural drawing for a monument with obelisk on top of Doric portico, 1820-1844
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2491
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite on paper.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Front elevation, 1820-1844
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2491, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite on paper.
Note: Drawings previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch; possibly by him.
Note: Monument is 215 ft. tall.
Summary: Working drawing showing monument as elevation.
Architectural drawings for a parapet, 1810-1832
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2492
Extent: 2 items : ink, wash, and watercolor ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Note: Date based on design style and date of last known work.
Summary: Working drawings showing parapet as elevations; renderings.
Elevation of parapet, between 1810 and 1832
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2492, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, wash, and watercolor on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: "extent at base 50 ft, at top 30, height 12"
Elevation of parapet, between 1810 and 1832
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2492, no. 2 (A size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, wash, and watercolor on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: "extent at base 50 ft, center 22, & height 12, each flank 14...10 high"
Architectural drawing for a church ("New North Church"), Hanover Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1802-1804
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2493
Extent: 1 item : ink, watercolor, and graphite ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Interior perspective, 1802-1804
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2493, no. 1 (A size)
Extent: 1 item : ink, watercolor, and graphite.
Note: Drawing not signed; attribution based on provenance.
Summary: Preliminary drawing showing church interior as perspective projection.
Architectural drawing for a wooden truss bridge, 1810-1832
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2494
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite ; in folder 71 x 102 cm.
Bridge plan and elevation, 1810-1832
Creator: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2494, no. 1 (D size)
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite.
Note: Date based on truss type and date of Bulfinch's last known work.
Note: Verso obscured by lining.
Summary: Preliminary drawing showing bridge as plan and elevation; engineering drawing.
Architectural drawing for gothic-style church, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2495
Extent: 1 item : ink and watercolor ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Transverse section, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2495, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 item : ink and watercolor.
Note: Signed G.B.P.; possibly by George B. Perkins.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Summary: Preliminary drawing showing church as section.
Architectural drawing of Bowdoin Street Congregational Meeting House, Boston, Massachusetts, 1831
Related Names: Bulfinch, Charles, 1763-1844, annotator
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2496
Extent: 1 item : photomechanical print ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Architectural drawing of Bowdoin Street Congregational Meeting House, 1831
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2496, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 item : photomechanical print.
Note: Annotations by Charles Bulfinch, giving dimensions of galleries, organ and other features.
Summary: Broadside advertisement for auction of pews, showing church and pews as plan.
Architectural drawing of straight and fractured bent timbers, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2497
Extent: 1 item : graphite ; in folder(s) 51 x 61 cm.
Architectural drawing of straight and fractured bent timbers, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2497, no. 1 (B size)
Extent: 1 item : graphite.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Summary: Drawing showing timbers as perspective projection; sketch and rendering.
Engineering drawing for a building, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2498
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite ; in folder(s) 71 x 102 cm.
Engineering drawing for a building, 1830-1860
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2498, no. 1 (D size)
Extent: 1 item : ink and graphite.
Note: Drawing previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Note: Probably a drawing for the same building, in a different hand, that was processed as ADE - UNIT 2500.
Summary: Working drawing showing building, probably a hospital, with heating flues as section; HVAC drawing.
Architectural drawings for an industrial building, 1847
Creator: Perkins, George B., architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2499
Extent: 3 items : ink, graphite, and colored ink ; in folder(s) 35 x 46 cm.
Note: Possibly a laundry building for Massachusetts General Hospital, drawn in 1847.
Note: Date based on possibility that building is for Massachusetts General Hospital.
Note: Drawings previously attributed to Charles Bulfinch.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Summary: Preliminary drawings showing industrial building and geometric studies as elevations and perspective projections.
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