Unidentified House with Octagonal Dome and Temple Portico
Description: House elevation, floor plan, section and notes
Date: Ca. 1800
Medium: ink and pencil
Support: paper
Dimensions:
Condition: N4a-1a and N4a-1b (notes): in original condition, no tearing or missing pieces
Condition: N4a-2 (plans): minor tears at fold between two plans, pieces missing from edge, minor foxing.
Condition: N4a-3 (section): no damage, in original condition
Condition: N4a-4 (elevation): minor pieces missing from folds, but not extensive tearing, in original condition.
Author: Jefferson (FDN questioned authorship)
Owner: ViU (10624)
Classification:
N4a
Publication History:
- Author: Nichols
- Title: Jefferson's Architectural Drawings
- Date: 1984
- Note:
Commentary:
Notes (2 pp.) And elevation in ink, plans of first and second floors and section in pencil. Ca. 1800, as the remodeling of Monticello is mentioned in the notes. These drawings, however, are not for Monticello, but for a house in town, probably Philadelphia. These drawings were evidently modified and submitted to James Barbour for Barboursville in 1817 as stated by Kimball in reference to the press copy above.
Drawing
- Description: Front elevation
- Location: Entire page
- Features:
- Columns, tuscan?, doric?
- Roof, hipped
- Dome
- Octagon drum
- Temple front
- Fenestration, circular
- Fenestration, lunette or thermae
- Entrance, triple
Drawing
- Description: First floor plan
- Location: Upper half of page
- Features:
- Octagon room
- Porticoes, amphi-prostyle
- Stair
- Text:
- Description: Label
- Location: At left of drawing
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
Drawing
- Description: Second floor plan
- Location: Lower half of page
- Features:
- Text:
- Description: Label
- Location: At left of drawing
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
Drawing
- Description: Section of House
- Location: Entire page
- Features:
- Dome with oculus
- Ceiling, octagonal
- Roof, hipped
- Text:
- Description: Label
- Location: At left of drawing
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
Text
- Description: Label
- Location: On stair section at left
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
Text
- Description: Notes
- Location: Two separate pages
- Author: Jefferson
- Transcription:
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- Notes. The pediments should be in height two ninths of their span. Archiatraves of doors and windows one sixth of their opening & 2 or 2-1/2 squares high where circumstances admit of it. [more]