Neilson's view of the Rotunda with Pavilions IX and X
Description: View from the South probably for Mrs. Cocke
Date: February 1823
Medium: Ink with tinted washes
Support: Paper CW
Dimensions: 17-1/2 x 11 in.
Condition: Laminated and backed with linen. Significant tear damage and repair; also staining.
Author: Neilson
Owner: ViU
Classification:
N-354
Publication History:
- Author: Nichols
- Title: Thomas 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
- Author: Lasala
- Title: Jefferson's Designs for the University
- Date: 1992
- Author: Wilson, ed.
- Title: Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village
- Date: 1993
- Note:
Commentary:
Credit for attributing this to Neilson and not to Jefferson's granddaughter, Cornelia Randolph, goes to C. Allan Brown.
Drawing
- Description: View of Student Rooms, Pavilions IX and X, and the Rotunda
- Location: Entire page (recto)
- Features:
- Colonade with Chinese railing
- Steps
- Roof, hipped
- Fireplace, central
- Fenestration, double-hung
- Parapet on Roof
- Columns, Doric
- Fenestration, double-hung
- landscape: trees, unterraced lawn
- Terraces extending from Rotunda with railing
- Portico with lunette window
Text:
- Description: Unattached Letter from Neilson to General Cocke
- Location: Cocke Family Papers, University of Virginia
- Author: John Neilson
- Transcription:
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- February 22, 1823
- ... an elevation of the Pantheon with the flank view of Pavillions [sic] No. 9 and 10 for Mrs. Cocke. [more]
