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| Architectural drawings for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1803-1814 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Framing & ceiling plan - Hall of Representatives, 1805 November 28 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| South wing - console, 1805 July 24 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 21 (B size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "For Wm. Lenthall -" -- "Face of the Consol of the corner rooms of the South Wing of the Capitol" -- "BHLatrobe S. pb. US. 1805" -- "July 24." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Principal story - plan, elevation, section, detail, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 22 (B size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Details of the North Wing of the Capitol on the Principal Floor. Scale 8 feet to an inch." -- "Fig. 1 Plan of the dome of the North Wing of the Capitol, showing the manner of carrying up the Chimnies, [sic] proposed." -- "Fig. 2. Plan of the staircase." -- "Fig. 3. Section of the Staircase on the principal floor." -- "Fig. 4. Section of the Central Lobby of the Senate - Chamber" -- "Fig. 5. Elevation of the Top of the Dome." -- "Fig. 6. Plan of the principal Story of the North wing of the Capitol, as proposed to be altered." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on verso: "14" -- "1." | |||||||||||||
| North Wing roof - plan, elevation & section, 1807 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 23 (B size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Designs for the Roof of the North Wing of the Capitol, as proposed to be carried up in the Year 1807." -- "Wm Lenthall, Clk Wks." -- "Section East & West" -- "Section North & South" -- "Plan of the Center." -- "proportion for the Cupola" -- "BHenry Latrobe Surv. p.Bldgs UStates. Augt 1807." -- "38-2" -- "[...]" | |||||||||||||
| Note: Verso obscured. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper. | |||||||||||||
| North wing, section of grand stairway, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 24 (C size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : ink and graphite on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscription on recto: "Stair in the Old Capitol." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Plan & section of roof, north wing, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 25 (C size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, and ink on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "For Wm. Lenthall Clk Wks." -- "Plan of the proposed alterations of the Roof of the North Wing" -- "Section thro' the Center of the two Domes" -- "Section thro' the Gutters." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Senate Chamber Lobby, north wing, plan & section, 1807 August | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 26 (B size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, ink, and wash on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Wm. Lenthall Clk Wks" -- "Details of the Lobby of the Senate Chamber on the Principal floor, North Wing of the Capitol." -- "Section North & South" -- "Section East & West" -- "Plan on the principal floor" -- "These piers on the attic story are to be only of nine inches projection. BHenry Latrobe Surv. pub. Bldgs. UStates Augt. 1807" -- "3." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Sections of north wing looking north & east, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 27 (C size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscription on recto: "N.Wing section North & South through Senate chamber and Supreme Court Old Capitol." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| President's chair, elevations, plans & details, 1809 October 20 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 28 (E size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, ink, wash, and graphite on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "President's chair &c Senate U.S." -- "BHLatrobe S.PBU.S. Oct. 20. 1809" | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Interior elevation & reflected ceiling plan, Senate Chamber, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Related Names: Bridport, George, artist | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 29 (D size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on laid paper : watercolor, ink, and wash ; sheet 70.3 x 47.5 cm, on cream laid paper mount 71.6 x 48.5 cm, on tan wove paper mount 72.7 x 49.2 cm. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscription on recto: "Believed to be George Bridport, unknown subject." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscription on verso (on linen lining): "NOTE IN HANDWRITING OF JOHN H.B. LATROBE [,] T.F. HANDEN." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Detail (with magnolia) of Senate domes & roof, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 30 (D size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, and ink on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Drawing is hinged. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Inclination of the floor slabs of the blinds of the windows of the lanthern [sic]. Senate Chamber U.S.--full size" -- "Senate as rebuilt." | |||||||||||||
| Detail (with magnolia) upper columns gallery, 1809 June 12 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 31 (D size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : wash, watercolor, and ink. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Includes sketch of Long Branch, Robert Carter Burwell's residence, Clarke County, Virginia. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Forms part of: Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress). | |||||||||||||
| Summary: Architectural drawing showing magnolia column capitals as details. | |||||||||||||
| Floral (magnolia) decorative relief, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 32 (D size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Library of Congress, north wing, section & plans, 1808 November 18 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 33 (D size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, ink, and wash on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Rooms labelled: "Upper gallery," "lower gallery," "reading room," "grand jury room" [i.e. Supreme Court chamber], "Clerk of the Court," "jury room," and "jury room." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Design of the Library of the Congress of the United States North Wing of the Capitol. By BHenry Latrobe Surveyor of the public Bldgs U.States. begun Nov. 18. 1808.--" -- "Section from South to North" -- "Plan of the South end of the library lowest floor under the Gallery" -- "Plan of the Ground story." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscription on verso (on paper mount): "Egyptian design for LC of 1808 (Hamlin's Benjamin H. Latrobe, plate 25)" | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Library of Congress & Judiciary Rooms, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 34 (C size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, ink, and graphite on paper ; 24 x 57 cm. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Section thro' the reading Room" -- "Section through the Center." -- "Plan of the North end, level of the upper Gallery." -- "Section of the Ground story." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Library of Congress, details, north wing, between 1803 and 1814 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 35 (D size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor, wash, ink, and graphite on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Details of the Library of the Congress U.S. in the N. Wing of the Capitol Washington" -- "Section of the Blocking" -- "Section of the Upper Colonade [sic]." -- "Section of the front of the Galleries" -- "40." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Supreme Court chamber, section & plan of bench, 1808 September 26 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 36 (B size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Section of the Court Room N.Wing, Capitol in front of the Bench" -- "Section thro the Fireplaces on the Bench" -- "Ground plan of the Bench" -- "Section East & West thro' the Center of the Bench" -- "Backing Arch Transverse Section" -- "BHenry Latrobe Surv. of the public Bldg & U.S. Septr. 26th 1808." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Notations include computations. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Court room plan, elevation, section, details, 1809 January 14 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2462, no. 37 (C size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "Details of the Court Room, North Wing of the Capitol Washington Jany. 1809" -- "Section of the lower Gallery at A" -- "BHenry Latrobe S. P. Bldgs. U. St." | |||||||||||||
| Note: Verso obscured. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Notations include computations. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Mounted on paper on linen. | |||||||||||||
| Architectural drawings for the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., 1815-1817 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2463 | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 24 items : watercolor, graphite, ink, and wash ; in folder(s) 71 x 102 cm. or smaller. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Campaign 2. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Reference copies available for some UNIT items in LOT 4249 (R). | |||||||||||||
| Summary: Includes preliminary, working, and presentation drawings showing Capitol, south and north wings, library, judiciary offices, vestibule of Senate chamber, House of Representatives gallery, House of Representatives dome, Senate dome, colonnades, lanterns, cornices, wharf landing, and crane as site plans, plans, elevations, sections, reflected ceiling plans, and details; renderings; structural drawings; engineering drawings. | |||||||||||||
| Floor plan, Supreme Court, vestibule - Judiciary, 1817 May 2 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: ADE - UNIT 2463, no. 1 (D size) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing : ink, watercolor, wash, and graphite on paper. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscriptions on recto: "GROUND FLOOR of the CAPITOL U.S. 1817." -- "Those parts which are colored light red denote the Walls remaining, and carried up since the conflagration of 1814. Those of a deeper red, the work commenced for the completion of the wings, agreeably to the suggestions of both houses of Congress. Those colored grey, are not ultimately determined, and are submitted to the President, United States." -- "Drawn from the design of BHLatrobe Esq' by W. Blanchard" -- "D-4" -- "No 2 correct for Wings" -- "16 [...] inch" -- "GENERAL VESTIBULE of the OFFICE STORY.--" -- "Supreme Court Room" -- "Vestibule of the Judiciary" -- "Respectfully submitted to the President U.S.[,] by BHenry Latrobe S.C.US.[,] May 2d 1817. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Verso obscured by lining. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Inscription on mount: "FROM M.I.T. SCHOOL OF ARCH. MAY 29, 1935." | |||||||||||||
| Principle floor plan, vestibule, library & senate chamber, House of Representatives, 1817 March 18 | |||||||||||||
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