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TITLE:  [U.S. Capitol and Pennsylvania Avenue before 1814] / B.H.L.

CALL NUMBER:  NA4411 .U27 1814 [Rare Book RR]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-227 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-4538 (b&w film copy neg.)

MEDIUM:  1 drawing on beige paper : ink, wash, and gouache ; visible image 21 x 26 cm., in frame 26 x 31 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1814 and 1820]

RELATED NAMES:

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.

NOTES:

Title supplied by the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Drawing formerly attributed to Latrobe. Aikman identifies the drawing as a Latrobe watercolor, made from memory after British soldiers burned the Capitol in 1814.

A pen and ink drawing with highlights in white gouache and black and gray washes.

Aikman, L. We, the people, p. 25

Reference copy in Lot 4386-6BA; Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.

Ford Peatross, Curator of Architecture, Design & Engineering, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, indicated on 9/11/2000 that several qualities of this drawing are inconsistent with Latrobe's technique; also that Latrobe drawing scholars Charles Brownell and Jeffrey Cohen have both rejected this drawing as a Latrobe.

SUBJECTS:

United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) Pictorial works.
Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.) Pictorial works.
Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
Capitols--Washington (D.C.)--1810-1820.

FORMAT:

Ink drawings 1810-1820.
Wash drawings 1810-1820.

DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy transparency) cph 3b51810 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b51810
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a07921 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a07921

CONTROL #:  00522050

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