Philadelphia - house (plan)
Description: Plan of TJ's house on the Schuylkill (?). List of furnishing (?) on verso.
Date: 1793 (?)
Medium: Ink & pencil
Support: Paper CX
Dimensions: 18.4 cm x 14.3 cm (7-1/4" x 5-5/8") -- measured: JH 07OCT92
Condition: Silk encapsulated, very good condition overall
Author: Jefferson
Owner: MHi
Classification:
N-251
, K-120
Publication History:
- Author: Kimball
- Title: Thomas Jefferson Architect
- Date: 1916
- Note:
- Author: Nichols
- Title: Jefferson's Architectural Drawings
- Date: 1984
- Note:
Drawing
- Description: Floor plan
- Location: Entire page (recto)
- Features:
- Oval room
- Stairs
- Windows, splayed
- Entries, one
- Text:
- Description: Dimensions
- Location: On plan
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
-
- Upper left room:
- 12-4
- 17-6
- Central hall (?):
-
-
- Central hall (?):
- 11-4
- 4
- Lower room:
- 7-7
- 1-6
- 5-5
- 1-9
- 4-1
- 6-1
- 4-3
- 6-7
- 4-9
- 5-3
Text
- Description: List of furnishings (/)
- Location: Entire page (verso)
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
-
- velvet chairs
- [___] morocco d'o
- one dining table
- octagon d'o
- well d'o
- reading desk d'o
- copying d'o
- [triangle] table
- handirons tongs shovels
- [___}] chimney glass
- red cotton curtains
- 2 pr(?) vent'n blinds. from [___]
- carpet [___]
- [___] turning paper press [___]
- black marble clock
- box of tools
- screw press
- candle shades
- time peice [sic]
- 6. windsor chairs
- chateau clock
- marble table
- [settee
- Dining tables
- [triangle] table
- 8 windsor chairs
- 4 dumb waiters
- handirons, tongs shovel
- 4 venet'n blinds
- 4 windsor chairs
- [bason stand.
- white marble clock
- [lanthern
- [fire fountain
- bed. bed stead
- black & white curt'ns
- little carpet
- [triangle] table
- handirons [___]
- table looking glass
- 1 Vent'n blinds
- night table
- clothes trunks
- rack table