Monticello: 1st version (elevation), probably before March 1771, by Thomas Jefferson. N48; K23 [electronic edition]

Monticello: 1st version (elevation), probably before March 1771
by Thomas Jefferson

Identification numbers: N48; K23
35.6 cm x 48.9 cm (14" x 19-1/4")

Page N48

[DESCRIPTION: Final elevation of first version. Scale: 4'=1". The house was nearly finished by 1782, but the upper portico seems never to have been completed. The octagonal ends are not shown on this drawing.]

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Cite web page as: Monticello: 1st version (elevation), probably before March 1771, by Thomas Jefferson. N48; K23 [electronic edition]. Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive. Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003. http://www.thomasjeffersonpapers.org/

Original manuscript: Jefferson, Thomas. Monticello: 1st version (elevation), 1 page, probably before March 1771. N48; K23. Dimensions: 35.6 cm x 48.9 cm (14" x 19-1/4"). Original manuscript from the Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society. For this elevation of his mountaintop home in its first incarnation, Jefferson drew heavily on work of the sixteenth-century Italian architect Andrea Palladio.