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• Title: [The White House ("President's House") Washington, D.C. South front elevation] / Jan. 1817, B H Latrobe.
• Other Title: Elevation of the south front of the President's house.
• Creator(s): Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect
• Date Created/Published: 1817 Jan.
• Medium: 1 drawing on paper : watercolor, wash, and ink ; 54 x 41 cm.
• Summary: View of the South Portico as proposed by Latrobe, with axial stairway, later modified in construction.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09502 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC2-111 (color film copy slide, after restoration) LC-USZC4-249 (color film copy transparency, before restoration) LC-USZ62-7262 (b&w film copy neg., before restoration)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Access Advisory: Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original drawing is too fragile to serve.
• Call Number: ADE - UNIT 2564, no. 3 (B size) (Cabinet B) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures Imagination": The President's House. Thomas Jefferson appointed Benjamin Henry Latrobe "Surveyor of the Public Buildings" of the United States, making him responsible for the completion of the Capitol and the White House, among other projects. A brilliant designer and consummate draftsman, Latrobe is considered the father of the architecture and engineering professions in this country. In this elevation he proposes the sophisticated transformation of the White House from the simple rectangular block erected by James Hoban to the porticoed building today recognized around the world as the home of the president of the United States.
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Inscriptions: "Elevation of the South front of the President's house, copied from the design as proposed to be altered in 1807" "Je n'aime [...] ne courez pas."
  • Watermark: T G & Co.
  • The architectural drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe / Jeffrey A. Cohen and Charles E. Brownell, D79
  • Reference copy available in LOT 4249-R.
  • Forms part of: Architectural drawings for the White House... in the Benjamin Henry Latrobe Archive (Library of Congress).
  • Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
• Subjects:
  • White House (Washington, D.C.)--1800-1810.
  • Official residences--Washington (D.C.)--1810-1820.
• Format:
  • Architectural drawings--1810-1820.
• Collections:
  • Miscellaneous Items in High Demand
• Part of: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820. Architectural drawings for The White House ("President's House") Washington, D.C.
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-09502 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC2-111 (color film copy slide, after restoration) LC-USZC4-249 (color film copy transparency, before restoration) LC-USZ62-7262 (b&w film copy neg., before restoration)
• Call Number: ADE - UNIT 2564, no. 3 (B size) (Cabinet B) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing on paper : watercolor, wash, and ink ; 54 x 41 cm.

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• Call Number: ADE - UNIT 2564, no. 3 (B size) (Cabinet B) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing on paper : watercolor, wash, and ink ; 54 x 41 cm.
• Access Advisory: Restricted access. Please use digital image or other reference copy. Original drawing is too fragile to serve.

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