Washington,D.C,1803,President's House,Gales' House,Old Patent Office,White House

Title: [Washington, D.C., ca. 1803, showing a pastoral view with the President's House, Gales' House, and the Old Patent Office (later the New Post Office & Blodget's Hotel) in the background]
Related Names:
King, N. (Nicholas), 1771-1812 , artist
Date Created/Published: [1973]
Summary: Photograph shows a reproduction of a watercolor drawing by Nicholas King that shows, in the foreground, a farm building with pigs, a two-wheeled cart, a woman standing next to an ox, and two men, hunters, on the right; in the background are distant views of the 'President's House' and 'Gales' House', and on the right, a large brick building that has housed the 'Old Patent Office', the 'New Post Office', and 'Blodget's Hotel.'
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Additional copies are filed in: LOT 4386-34 (halftone), LOT 4386-56 (photoprint), LOT 4386-27 (photostat).
Original watercolor drawing by Nicholas King, City Surveyor, is now in the collections of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
A copy negative was made in 1973 from a contact print made from a glass copy negative (now broken) made around 1898 by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Subjects:
Official residences--Washington (D.C.)--1800-1810.
Government facilities--Washington (D.C.)--1800-1810.
City & town life--Washington (D.C.)--1800-1810.
Washington (D.C.)--1800-1810.
Gelatin silver prints--1970-1980.
Watercolors--1800-1810--Reproductions--1970-1980.
Bookmark /2012645374/
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