Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Doric Ornamentation for University of Virginia Pavilions, [ca. 10 April 1823]

Notes on Doric Ornamentation for University of Virginia Pavilions

[ca. 10 Apr. 1823]

Doric rooms

No	2.	8 I. sq.	we have not
	5.	9. sq.	Palladio 1. 16 we have not
	6.	9 i sq.	Dioclesian’s baths
	9.	9 I. sq.	Dioclesian baths
	10.	8 I. sq.	Albano. we have

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 223:39915); written in TJ’s hand on a small scrap, on verso of TJ’s Notes on William J. Coffee’s Agreement with University of Virginia, [ca. 10 Apr. 1823]; undated.

This memorandum refers to the Doric ornaments made by Coffee for the drawing rooms of the pavilions under construction at the University of Virginia and gives the contents of two boxes of ornaments missing at the conjectural date of composition (see TJ to Coffee, 10 Apr. 1823).

TJ’s model for the drawing room of Pavilion X was the Doric temple at albano, near Rome, for which his source was a drawing by Roland Fréart de Chambray in Charles Antoine Jombert, ed., Bibliothèque portative d’Architecture élémentaire, a l’usage des Artistes (new ed., Paris, 1764–66; Sowerby description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends , no. 4216; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 12 [no. 723]; TJ’s copies in DLC: Rare Book and Special Collections and MoSW), vol. 4, plate opp. p. 28.

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Title: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Doric Ornamentation for University of Virginia Pavilions, [ca. 10 April 1823]
Date: 10 April 1823

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Doric Ornamentation for University of Virginia Pavilions, [ca. 10 April 1823],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-19-02-0399. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 19, 16 September 1822 to 30 June 1823, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, p. 524.]