Architect Drawings : A Selection of Sketches by World Famous Architects Through History

Figure 3.3 / Boullée, Etienne-Louis
Cenotaph, in the shape of a pyramid. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ha 57 FT 6, 4/237
IM.281 Plate 24. 39 61.3 cm; ink and wash; 1780–1790. ©Bibliothèque Nationale de
France.
Figure 3.4 / Latrobe, Benjamin Henry
US Capitol under construction, seventh set. The Maryland Historical Society,
1960.108.1.9.12. August 1806. ©The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland.
Figure 3.5 / Jefferson, Thomas
Monticello: mountaintop layout (plan). Massachusetts Historical Society, N61; K34. 22.8
36.9 cm; ink, with a few additions, much later, in pencil; before May 1768. ©Courtesy of
the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Figure 3.6 / Soane, Sir John
Sketch of a design for the south side of the Lothbury Court, Bank of England. Sir John
Soane’s Museum, Soane 10/3/6. 56.5 68.4 cm; pencil, pen and brown ink with pink,
brown, and grey washes; November 9, 1799. ©By courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John
Soane’s Museum, London, England.
Figure 3.7 / Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Sketches of a church at Grundriß Square. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, SM 41d.220. 40.3
30.3 cm; black ink; 1828. ©Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Kupferstichkabinett/bpk; photo
Joerg P. Anders.
Figure 3.8 / Pugin, A.W.N.
Details on the Avignon travel sketches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35.33.3, II 16,
p.6 sketchbook. 15 10 in.; graphite and ink on sketchbook page. ©All rights reserved,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Figure 3.9 / Paxton, Joseph
Crystal Palace proposal end elevation and cross-section sketch. V&A Picture Library, CT
14412. Pen and ink on blotting paper; June 11, 1850. ©V&A Picture Library, London,
England.
Figure 3.10 / Labrouste, Henri
Croquis de structures. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Ha Mat 1 F18293. Ink and wash
on paper. ©Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
Figure 4.1 / Richardson, Henry Hobson
Small sketch from west, preliminary sketch, All Saints Episcopal Cathedral (Albany, NY).
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, HH Richardson Papers, ASA F3. 10 13 cm;
graphite on tracing paper; 1882–1883. ©Courtesy of the Department of Printing and
Graphic Arts, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library.
Figure 4.2 / Hunt, Richard Morris
Sketch for the base of the Statue of Liberty. The Museum of the American Architectural
Foundation, Box 1865. 11 1 / 8 7 5 / 8 in.; graphite, ink, wash on paper. ©Prints and Drawings
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