Thornton, William, 1759-1828
William Thornton British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect (1759-1828)
Thornton, William (American physician, architect, 1759-1828)
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Works
Title | Sources |
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[An antique vase] | |
Architectural drawing for a pavilion in a garden setting | |
Architectural drawings for monuments, Washington, D.C. | |
[Arcuated ruins in pastoral landscape] | |
Augusto et suo ascendenters ; Amore e Delfino | |
[Botanical drawing of lady's slipper, genus Cypripedium] | |
Cadmus | |
Cadmus, or a treatise on the elements of written language ... With an essay on the mode of teaching the surd or deaf, and consequently dumb to speak. | |
The counterpoise : Being thoughts on a militia and a standing army | |
[Dan o' Deer] | |
East, June 76, [...], Loch Tey [?] from [K]illian | |
[Fenced yard with brick church, cemetery, and white-washed log cabin] | |
[Flash of lightning framed by arch] | |
[Glacier landscape, probably Mer de Glace and source of Arveyron River, Alps, France] | |
[Gothic chapel ; Egyptian pylon.] | |
[Gothic-style country house, with towers and crenellated battlements and bartizans at corners, in landscape with stream, probably Scotland] | |
[La Grange, country estate of the Marquis de Lafayette, Seine-et-Oise, France] | |
[Hilly landscape and river with arched stone bridge under construction or repair] | |
[Hilly landscape with castle, loch, and man playing flute in right foreground] | |
[House ("Octagon--Tayloe House"), 1799 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. | |
[House ("Tudor Place") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. | |
Incidental architect : William Thornton and the cultural life of early Washington, D.C., 1794-1828 | |
[Landscape with mountains and buildings at edge of large body of water, probably Scotland] | |
[Lion, shown in three-quarters view and partial profile sketch] | |
Map of North Carolina | |
Memorial of the Columbian Institute. : March 6, 1826. Referred to the Committee on the Public Buildings. | |
Message from the President of the United States, inclosing a memorial of the Commissioners appointed under the "Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the government of the United States" : representing the situation and circumstances of the city of Washington ... | |
[Mountainous landscape with town at base of cliff] | |
N. west view of the bending pillars of Staffa & Boushaler [sic] | |
The newcomplete and universal history, description and survey of the cities of London and Westminster : the borough of southwark and the parts adjacent including not only all the parishes within the bills of mortality but likewise the towns, villages, palaces, seats, and country, to the extent of above twenty miles round and alterations ... | |
[North west view of the vulcanic amphitheatre at the south point of Mull] | |
Outlines of a constitution for united North & South Columbia. | |
Patents Patent-office, March 5, 1811. | |
Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia : ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC | |
Political economy, founded in justice and humanity : in a letter to a friend | |
Prize dissertation, which was honored with the Magellanic gold medal, by the American Philosophical Society, January, 1793 | |
Ritratti, Settimis et Giulia | |
[Roman Doric entablature and column on pedestal.] | |
Short account of the origin of steam boats... | |
[Sketch of branch with serrate-edged, paired leaves] | |
[Study for a painting, looking north, Natural Bridge, Virginia] | |
Swartmoor [sic] Meeting House | |
[Three Sisters Island, Potomac River, above Georgetown, Washington, D.C.] | |
To the members of the House of representatives of the United States. Gentlemen. | |
[Town or village at water's edge with complex of buildings on hill top, possibly Germany] | |
[Town plan for Mesurado, Liberia] | |
Travels through the interior parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768. | |
[Unfinished drawing with red and black caterpillar on a leafy branch and ruled border] | |
[Unidentified Ionic capital with angled volutes framing an acanthus leaf.] | |
[Unidentified semicircular structure (two story, over twenty-five bays) with giant order Corinthian colonnade and pyramid-like point.] | |
[United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. | |
[Vase on pedestal, copied from Robert Adam's Works in architecture] | |
View from the N.W. of the Hogshead-Hole, near Carlisle, Co. of Cumberland | |
[Waterfront fire, probably burning of the Washington Navy Yard, 1814, Anacostia River, Washington, D.C.] | |
We, the people, 1978: | |
William Thornton papers | |
Works. Selections. 1995 | |
[Young man or boy, profile portrait] |