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The Temple on the Hill
For more than 150 years, the Virginia State Capitol on Shockoe Hill dominated the Richmond skyline.
The earliest views of the Virginia State Capitol were made by B. Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), the British-born founder of the American architectural profession, who lived in Virginia between 1796 and 1798. A skillful amateur artist, Latrobe prepared a series of views of the Capitol that documents the appearance of the building from different perspectives. In later years, Latrobe's and Jefferson's architectural careers intertwined inseparably, and Latrobe designed several public buildings that were influenced by Jefferson's conception for Virginia's Capitol. |