William J.H. Hough papers, 1765-1925 (bulk 1907-1919).

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William J.H. Hough papers, 1765-1925 (bulk 1907-1919).

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The collection contains personal correspondence, sketch books, scrapbooks, photographs, architectural drawings and other materials related to Hough's student years at the University of Pennsylvania and his years of study in Italy. The collection also contains photographs of drawings (ca 1920-1925) of Paul Cret's Delaware River Bridge, designed and built during Hough's early years in Cret's firm. Hough's correspondence is limited to his time in Europe 1911-1919, nearly entirely with family members. Hough's letters and photographs provide insight into architectural education, his fellow students, and World War I in Italy from the perspective of a student and a Red Cross worker. There is no correspondence with Paul Cret, who was serving in the French army while Hough was at the American Academy in Rome. Hough's sketchbooks document his travels in Italy, and his scrapbook titled Italian Villas documents more than 20 villas with sketches and numerous photographs. The collection contains a group of remarkable large renderings, including "Monument to a Deceased Ruler" which won the Rome Prize in 1914 and "Fountain and Colonnade, Piazza di San Pietro, Rome" a fine large rendering made at the American Academy in Rome. The collection contains two items by Hough's fellow students in Rome: an etching by Grant Miles Simon and a drawing by H.I Stickroth. The oldest item in the collection (1765) is a large engraved view of Rome by Giuseppe Vasi.

Drawings 40 sheets : various media.Photographs 217 photoprints.Sketchbooks 7 v.Scrapbooks 1 v. (350 photoprints, 22 drawings, 32 post cards)Correspondence 162 items.Miscellaneous 10 folders.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Architecture

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Simon, Grant Miles.

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Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945

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Paul Philippe Cret (1876-1945) was born in Lyon, France. EĢcole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1903. Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and architect in Philadelphia, 1903-1937. Major works include Indianapolis Public Library, 1914-1917; Delaware River Bridge, Philadelphia, 1920-1926; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 1928-1932; Federal Reserve Board Building, Washington, 1935-1937. From the description of Pan American Union Building, Washington, D.C. : presentation, development an...

Hough, William J. H. (William Jarrett Hallowell), 1888-1969.

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William J.H. Hough was trained in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S. 1911, M.S. 1913), where he studied under Paul Philippe Cret. In 1911 he won the Stewardson Travelling Scholarship, and in 1914 he won the Rome Prize, which permitted him to study at the American Academy in Rome from 1914-1917. In 1917, he worked with the American Red Cross in Italy; he received the Bronze Medal of Merit from the Italian Red Cross in 1919. Hough worked for the architectural firms of Cope & ...

Stickroth, H. I.

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American Academy in Rome

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Art school; Rome, Italy. Organized in 1894 as the American School of Architecture in Rome. In 1897, it was dissolved and its assets turned over to the newly established American Adademy in Rome, not a traditional school, but a place where architects, painters, and sculptors could work in close association. After merging with the American School of Classical Studies (f. 1895) on the last day of 1912, the American Academy in Rome consisted of the School of Fine Arts and th...

University of Pennsylvania. Graduate School of Fine Arts

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Vasi, Giuseppe, 1710-1782

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Giuseppe Vasi was an Italian printmaker and archaeologist. He studied with Sebastiano Conca, Pier Leone Ghezzi, and Filippo Juvara, and became the first teacher of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Among his most famous works are the topographical views of Rome, issued between 1747 and 1761 in ten volumes under the title "Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna" and also this print. Giuseppe Vasi was born in 1710 in Corleone, Sicily, and died in 1782 in Rome. From the description of Pr...