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ID: 700000082
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000082
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
View of the East Front of the President's House (design drawing; Benjamin H. Latrobe (British, 1764-1820); 1907; Library of Congress (Washington, DC, United States); ADE - UNIT 2564, no. 4; c-P&P(B size)(Cabinet A))
Note: Latrobe worked with President Jefferson to transform the modest President's House.
Titles:
View of the East Front of the President's House (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)
View of the east front of the President's House, with the addition of the north and south porticos (C,U,English,U,U)
Design for the Addition of Porticoes on the North and South Fronts of the President's House (C,U,English,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
design drawing [300069413] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, drawings (visual works), <drawings by function>)

Classifications:
drawings (preferred)
American art

Creation Date: 1907

Creator Display:
Benjamin H. Latrobe (British, 1764-1820) [preferred,VP]
draftsman Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (British architect and engineer, 1764-1820, active in the United States) [500004298]
Locations:
Current: Library of Congress (Washington, DC, United States) [500312782] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: ADE - UNIT 2564, no. 4; c-P&P(B size)(Cabinet A)
Display Materials: ink and watercolor on paper
ink [300015012]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)
watercolor (paint) [300015045]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)
laid paper [300014184]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

Dimensions: 39.12 x 50.8 cm (15 3/8 x 20 inches)
General Subject:
architecture (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
White House [700000083]
.....(White House [700000083], Built Works by class: residential structures [700009562], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)
elevation (building division) [300076168]
.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, building divisions) (AAT)

Related Works:
depicts .... White House [700000083]
..........presidential residence; James Hoban (American architect, 1762-1831); built between 1792 and 1800; a...; Washington (District of Columbia, United States, North and C...

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
View of the East Front of the President's House........ [VP]
........ LC Prints and Drawings Division [online] (2000-) https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri024.html
View of the east front of the President's House, with the addition of the north and south porticos........ [VP]
........ LC Prints and Drawings Division [online] (2000-)
Design for the Addition of Porticoes on the North and South Fronts of the President's House........ [VP]
........ LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division online (2006-)
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... CDWA online (1995-) accessed 21 October 2010
..... LC Prints and Drawings Division [online] (2000-)
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