Monticello I Plan
Description: Plan of the first version of Monticello
Date: 1768-1770
Medium: Ink
Support: Laid paper with watermarks (Paper AB)
Dimensions: 30.1 cm x 36.8 cm (11-7/8" x 14-1/2")
Condition: Linen backed, minor losses in lower left corner area patched with Fabriano paper (20th c.), vertical crease in center from folding sheet in half, tears along crease near top & bottom edges and at bottom edge to the right of center, assorted stains and smudges throughout sheet (especially heavy in lower left corner and center of right half)
Author: Jefferson
Owner: MHi
Classification:
N-33, K-11
Publication History:
- Author: Kimball
- Title: Thomas Jefferson Architect
- Date: 1916
- Note:
- Author: Nichols
- Title: Jefferson's Architectural Drawings
- Date: 1984
- Note:
- Author: Kimball
- Title: Jefferson and the Public Buildings of Virginia I. Williamsburg, 1770-1776
- Date: 1949
- Note:
Commentary:
Drawing
- Description: Plan of Monticello I
- Location: Entire page
- Features:
- Portico, four-columned with side steps
- Attached columns
- Windows
- Fireplaces
- Piazza (with arcade?)
- Text:
- Description: Dimensions
- Location: On drawing
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
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- (Portico)
- 9
- 1.8 (column)
- 6.75
- (Upper left room)
- 18 x 18
- 1.584
- (Upper center room)
- 24
- 9
- 6.25
- 3.5
- 1
- 2
- 2.708
- 1.558
- 3.25
- 6
- (Upper right room)
- 18f.
- 6.66
- 4.66
- 6.833
- 4.333
- 1.875
- 8.708
- (Lower left room)
- 18
- (Lower center room)
- 4.666
- 10.875
- 37.883
- 3.466
- 1.275
- 7.65
- 3.6
- (Lower right room)
- 11.458
- 2.979
- 6.66
- 3.5625
- _ f. .625 (exterior width dimension)
- 67.5 (exterior length dimension)
Text
- Description: Note regarding cellars
- Location: Upper left corner of page
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
-
- cellars under the rooms at this end and under the large room in the middle
- 420,000 bricks
