Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of t[he] United States : projected agreeable to the direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC, "establishing the permanent seat on the bank of the Potowmac" : [Washington D.C.]

L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825

United States. Commissioner of Public Buildings

[1791]

by Peter Charles L'Enfant

Scale [ca. 1:15,840]

English

Library of Congress Geography and Map Division

Library of Congress Collection

• Washington (D.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Manuscript maps--Early works to 1800

• District of Columbia
• North and Central America
• United States
• Washington

1 map : ms., col. ; 70 x 81 cm., on sheet 73 x 104 cm.

• No known copyright restrictions.
• This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).

• The earliest extant plan of Washington D.C., known as "The L'Enfant Plan."
• At upper right: Office, Commissioner of Public Buildings, D.C.
• Dark and light inks, watercolors, and lead pencil annotations (some erased).
• Watermarks: GR, TB, [crown over fleur-de-lis in shield].
• Originally drawn on 2 sheets.
• Brittle, torn, faded, missing edge and interior sections, varnished, darkened, and housed between sheets of glass in wooden frame.
• Includes text, notes, and index of "References."
• At lower right: N.I.