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Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885
Extent: 22 items : watercolor, wash, and ink ; in folder(s) 56 x 71 cm.
Note: Arrangement of drawings in the UNIT follows original order.
Note: Drawings removed from binding; original covers and six blank sheets retained in the UNIT.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Summary: Preliminary and presentation drawings showing site, theater and stage setting, and hotel building as site plans, plans, elevations, sections, and perspective projections; sketches and renderings; structural drawings; interior design drawings; topographic maps; maps.
Blank sheet
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 1 (C Size)
Extent: 1 item.
Blank sheet
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 2 (C Size)
Extent: 1 item.
3-Title Sheet with vignette, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 3 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : wash, watercolor, and ink on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "DESIGNS of a Building proposed to be erected at RICHMOND, VIRGINIA to contain a THEATRE, ASSEMBLY-ROOMS, AND AN HOTEL by B.Henry Latrobe Boneval, Architect & Engineer" -- "Nunc est bibemdum, nunc pede libero pulfanda tellus. Hor. Od. Lib." -- "Begun Dec. 2d 1797. finished Jany 8th 1798."
4--Table of Contents (incomplete), 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 4 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : wash, ink, and watercolor on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Description of the Drawings and General Observations."
4--urn, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 4v (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor and wash on paper.
5--section of theatre with figures, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 5 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor and wash on paper.
Note: From album: Designs of a building to be erected at Richmond in Virginia, to contain a theatre, assembly-rooms, and an hotel.
Summary: Presentation drawing showing interior of theater, assembly rooms, and hotel as section.
6-interior perspective rendering, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 6 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, and ink on paper.
7--map of Richmond, Virginia, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 7 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, and ink ; 41 x 56 cm.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Plan of part of the city of RICHMOND, shewing the situation of the proposed BUILDING."
Summary: Map and site plan showing Richmond and a proposed theater and hotel building.
8--perspective sketch, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 8 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink on paper.
9--foundation plan, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 9 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : wash, watercolor, and ink on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "PLAN of the FOUNDATION-STORY." -- "III" -- "Laundry." --"Housekeeper's room." -- "Bakehouse" -- "Servants hall" -- "Kitchen" -- "Wine Cellars."
10-Ground floor plan, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 10 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "PLAN OF THE GROUND-STORY." -- "IV." -- "Private Dining room" -- "Supper room" -- "Green room" -- "Dining room" -- "Coffee room" -- "Fruit store" -- "Store of Merchandise" -- "Pit" -- "Under the Stage" -- "Arcade."
11-1st floor plan, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 11 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "PLAN OF THE FIRST FLOOR." -- "V" -- "Ball room" -- "Card room" -- "Private Card parties" -- "Chamber" -- "Stage" -- "Box lobby" -- "Dressing rooms" -- "Ladies Dressing room" -- "Servants waiting room."
12-2nd floor plan, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 12 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink and watercolor on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "PLAN OF THE SECOND FLOOR" -- "VI." -- "Carpenter's shop." -- "Carpenters Gallery" -- "Painting room" -- "Music Gallery" -- "Gallery" -- "Upper Boxes" -- "Gallery Lobby."
13--Principal (NW) front & SE front elevations, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 13 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, and ink on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Elevation of the South-East FRONT." -- "Elevation of the PRINCIPAL, OR N.West, FRONT." -- "VII."
14--SW and NE flanks of hotel, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 14 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, and ink on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Elevation of the S.W. Flank, being the FRONT of the HOTEL." --"Elevation of the N.E. Flank, being the FRONT of the ROOMS," -- "VIII."
15--section or internal view of theatre, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 15 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor and wash on paper.
Note: Inscriptions on recto: Section or Internal View of the Theatre [...]"
16--front of the stage, 1797 or 1798
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 16 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, and ink on paper.
Note: Inscription on recto: "Front of the Stage."
Blank sheet
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 17 (C Size)
Extent: 1 item.
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Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 18 (C Size)
Extent: 1 item.
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Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 19 (C Size)
Extent: 1 item.
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Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 20 (C Size)
Extent: 1 item.
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Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2885, no. 21 (C Size)
Extent: 1 item.
Architectural drawings for houses and a church ("Buildings Erected or Proposed to be Built in Virginia"), 1795-1799
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2886
Extent: 39 items : watercolor, ink, wash, and graphite ; in folder(s) 56 x 71 cm.
Note: Portfolio size: 53 x 38 cm.
Note: Drawings removed from binding; original order maintained.
Note: Includes a title page annotated by Latrobe.
Note: In the 1940s, these drawings were described in the Library's catalog as a book of 25 plates (53 cm) with the call number NA737.L34 A45 (folio) and title Designs of buildings erected or proposed to be built in Virginia.
Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R).
Summary: Includes preliminary and presentation drawings to illustrate a projected publication showing various sites, houses, and a church as site plans, plans, elevations, perspective projections; sections, and details; sketches and renderings; interior design drawings; landscape architecture drawings; topographic maps; miscellaneous supplementary materials.
II Blank sheet
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2886, no. 1 (C Size)
Extent: 1 item.
Note: Misc. supp. Includes thread fragments from former binding (regular misc. supp. storage). There is also C size misc. supp., the portfolio cover. Formerly bound--arranged in original order.
Title page with vignette, 1798 and 1799
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2886, no. 2 (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, ink, and wash on paper.
Note: Inscriptions: "DESIGNS OF BUILDINGS ERECTED OR PROPOSED TO BE BUILT IN VIRGINIA, BY B. Henry LATROBE Boneval. From 1795 to 1799." --"B.H. Latrobe in[]" -- "Richmond 1798" -- "Philadelphia Septr. 8. 1799."
Explanation of title page vignette, between 1795 and 1799
Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2886, no. 2v (C size)
Extent: 1 drawing : ink on paper.
Note: Inscription: "Explanation of the Vignette in the Titlepage. During my residence in Virginia from 1795 to 1799, the applications to me for designs were very numerous, and my fancy was kept employed in building castles in the air, the plans of which are contained in this Volume. The only two buildings which were executed from the drawings were CAPTN Pennocks house at Norfolk, and Colonel Harvies at Richmond. (p. 1 & _____). The former stands on terra firma in the background to the left, the latter on the hill in the middle ground. The Wings of Col. Harvie's were never built, & are thus following the other buildings into the sky. Higher up among the clouds, are the buildings which may easily be known by looking over the following drawings. To the right hovers the figure of the Architects imagination, such as she is. With the Model of the Bank of Pennsylvania in her hand, she is leaving the Rocks of Richmond & taking her flight to Philadelphia. The idea of the Figure is imitated from a figure by Flaxman, the celebrated Sculptor."
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