In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn

Language: English

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2006

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Some scuffing to jacket, particularly rear panel. Light bump at head of spine with attendant crease in jacket. Jacket spine damp-stained in several places at tail; cloth itself unaffected. Else fine. Despite wear to jacket, a very nice copy; internals are bright and clean. In 1999, historians at the Virginia Historical Society acquired three curiously bound volumes of drawings and documents created between 1821 and 1858 by a long?and unjustifiably?forgotten architect named Thomas R. Blackburn. Inspection revealed that these were, in fact, no ordinary documents but a unique window onto the life of a distinguished builder and his revered master: Thomas Jefferson. In these extraordinary books, we find Blackburn, at first a young carpenter, engaged in the construction of Jefferson's famed academical village at the University of Virginia. He simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of architectural study, guided, it appears, by Jefferson himself. The drawings he executed in the four decades that followed?extraordinary ink and watercolor explorations of his many residential and civic commissions?bear witness to his emergence as a mature and prolific architect in his own right. In Jefferson's Shadow is a unique document of the relationship between an unknown but highly skilled country builder and the American statesman widely considered this nation's first gentleman architect. But it is also an indispensable resource on the little-understood practice of architecture in the early and mid-nineteenth century.

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Title
In Jefferson's Shadow: The Architecture of Thomas R. Blackburn
Author
Green, Bryan Clark
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Publication year
2006
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Very Good
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Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
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1568984790
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9781568984797
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1.
Item weight
4 pounds
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