Neilson's Plan of Poplar Forest, Bedford County
Description: Jefferson's Octagonal Retreat
Date: 1820?
Medium: India ink
Support: Hand-ruled graph paper
Dimensions: 11-1/2" L x 9" W
Condition:
Author: John Neilson
Owner: ViU
Classification:
N-350
, K Pl. 14
Publication History:
- Author: Kimball
- Title: Thomas Jefferson Architect
- Date: 1916
- Note:
- Author: Nichols
- Title: Jefferson's Architectural Drawings
- Date: 1984
- Note:
- Author: Cote
- Title: The Architectural Workmen of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia
- Date: 1986
- Note: Ph.D. dissertation, Boston University
- Author: Lay
- Title: University of Virginia Alumni News 80
- Date: October 1991
- Note: "Jefferson's Master Builders" pp. 16-19
Commentary:
Drawing
- Description: First floor plan
- Location: Entire page
- Features:
- Porticos with columns
- Passage, center
- Fireplaces, corner
- Dining room, square
- Chambers, bed, octagonal
- Chamber, parlor, octagonal
- Stairhalls, lateral, exterior
