- Title
- Drawing of a Building
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- Creator
- Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892)
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- Description
- Fifth Avenue elevation of a building, 3 stories high; decoration around windows increases from left to right (variations in windows); bottom 1/5 of paper folds up, beneath fold is a variant of how the building would appear with an extra floor, and showing doors and more windows on bottom floor (possibly this is the elevation of this building on another street); scale is also beneath the fold. Fifth Avenue elevation of a building, 3 stories high; decoration around windows increases from left to right (variations in windows); bottom 1/5 of paper folds up, beneath fold is a variant of how the building would appear with an extra floor, and showing doors and more windows on bottom floor (possibly this is the elevation of this building on another street); scale is also beneath the fold. Davis worked first as a lithographer and then as an architect. In tandem with Ithiel Town beginning in 1829, he designed a remarkable number of buildings, public structures (hospitals, school buildings, churches, museums, state capitols) and private dwellings alike. Davis embarked on a solo career in 1843, continuing in practice alone for more than 30 years. At one point in his life, Davis claimed to have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. He is best known for Gothic revival designs.
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- Format
- ["drawing"]
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- Subjects
- ["Architectural drawings","Architecture--Designs and plans"]
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