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, N 61 ; K 34. 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 41 d. 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 F 18293. 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 F 3. 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. 111 / 8  75 / 8 in.; graphite, ink, wash on paper. ©Prints and Drawings

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