Watercolor of the White House's South Grounds
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date of Work
- 1827
- Type
- Painting
- Credit
- Anthony St. John Baker, Memoires d'un voyageur qui se repose: With illustrations.... (London: Priv. print., 1850), RB 286000, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California "President's House, Washington";White House and Capitol, c. 1826 [watercolor]
Watercolor of the White House's South Grounds
This watercolor painted in 1827 by an anonymous artist, depicts the White House and its grounds from the southwest. The watercolor shows the recently built South Portico, constructed in 1824 during the Monroe administration, Thomas Jeffersons stone walls, workers cottages, an orchard, and President John Quincy Adam's tree nursery.