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• Collection: Drawings (Documentary)

• Title: A view of the Capitol of Washington before it was burnt down by the British
• Creator(s): Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
• Date Created/Published: [ca. 1800]
• Medium: 1 drawing : watercolor ; 22.5 x 29.2 cm (sheet)
• Summary: This famous watercolor view by William Birch shows the North Wing of the Capitol. This was the only section of the Capitol that had been completed when the government moved to Washington in 1800. Workmen are still cutting stones in the left foreground, and the city can be seen in the distance on the right. The building housed the first U.S. Congress, which met in Washington, DC, in 1800. After the House of Representatives moved to a newly built South Wing, the Senate used the North Wing until it was burned by British troops in 1814. (Source: Library staff and Flickr Commons project, 2020)
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-22593 (digital file from original item) LC-DIG-ppmsca-07708 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC4-247 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-1804 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Call Number: DRWG/US - Birch (W.), no. 1 (A size) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Transfer; Map Division, Jan. 4 1916.
  • Title from item (inscribed on verso).
  • Reference copy in LOT 4386-6BA.
  • Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2013.
• Subjects:
  • United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)--1800.
  • Capitols--1800.
• Format:
  • Watercolors--American--1810-1820.
• Collections:
  • Drawings (Documentary)
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-22593 (digital file from original item) LC-DIG-ppmsca-07708 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC4-247 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-1804 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Call Number: DRWG/US - Birch (W.), no. 1 (A size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing : watercolor ; 22.5 x 29.2 cm (sheet)

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• Call Number: DRWG/US - Birch (W.), no. 1 (A size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 drawing : watercolor ; 22.5 x 29.2 cm (sheet)

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