#monticello

[hiidkwhatimdoing7525]

The more I look at this book the funnier the cover gets

let me just...

there. So much better.

#monticello #thomas jefferson #thomas jeffershit #alexander hamilton #very shitty stuff #amrev

[dustzvacuumcleaner]

I don’t have to sell my soul

He’s already in me.

I don’t need to sell my soul

He’s already in me.

#amrev #amrev fandom #james monroe #thomas jefferson #and his legacy #MOnTICELLO #cuz monticello is there

[unteriors]

US Route 1, Monticello, Maine.

#Monticello #Maine

[18thcentury]

The feminine urge to roll around on Thomas Jefferson's death bed....

#18th century #thomas jefferson #american revolution #Monticello #founding daddies

[chaotic-history]

more Monticello photos!

^trumbull miniature

^zozo, tj, and hamilton's busts in the entry room

really creepy-looking madison

dick !!

olly cromwell's death mask. excuse the shitty photo

The Bed™️

TJ's riding boots!

btw I definitely recommend visiting! The area is absolutely gorgeous andthe tour inside the house was super informative abt not just TJ but all the other people who lived there too, and the history of what happened to Monticello after Jeffs died, which I hadn't known anything about

#bacon newton & locke being the holy trinity is my favorite tj fact ever btw <3 #ok maybe second favorite after dick the mockingbird #thomas jefferson #monticello

[lascitasdelashoras]

Jean Michel Basquiat - Monticello

#jean michel basquiat #monticello

[digitalyarbs]

The Real Face of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s reconstructed life mask. The mask was cast of his head and upper torso by John Henri Issac Browere in 1825. yarbs.net

#thomas jefferson #amrev #american history #president #presidents #american presidents #revolutionary #declaration of independence #history #monticello

[peculiarparasol]

I have a sneaking suspicion this tour guide ships Jamilton.

Man had a bust of Alex in his main hall!

#jamilton #alexander hamilton #thomas jefferson #amrev #amrev fandom #historical hamilton #monticello #Spotify

[yr-obedt-cicero]

Do you know why Jefferson place a bust of Hamilton in his entrance way? Or why he even had one at the very first place?

According to one of Jefferson's grandchildren;

After gazing a moment at these objects, the eye settled with a deeper interest on busts of Jefferson and Hamilton, by Ceracchi, placed on massive pedestals on each side of the main entrance “opposed in death as in life,” as the surviving original sometimes remarked, with a pensive smile, as he observed the notice they attracted.

Randall, Henry Stephens. The Life of Thomas Jefferson. United States, Derby & Jackson, 1858.

[Jefferson, Randolph, and Trist Family Papers, 1791-1874, #5385-ac, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.]

When a guest had questioned the scenery, Jefferson wryly replied that they were “opposed in death as in life.” [x] But despite the vague phrasing, he never gave more of a reason. It is believed by some that it was a metaphor for Hamilton's and Jefferson's divide, yet essentiality in the building of America. Or Jefferson found it amusing, as it is said that his bust was on a green marble pedestal decorated with the signs of the zodiac and the twelve tribes of Israel, towering over Hamilton's. Although Jefferson's bust doesn't survive to this today, but we have a small description of it;

This rough pencil sketch, made by an unknown hand on the verso of a retained copy of a letter written by Jefferson's grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph in December 1826, is the only extant image of a bust of Jefferson that Giuseppe Ceracchi modeled from life in Philadelphia sometime after 2 Mch. 1791. He intended to incorporate it, with other likenesses of prominent Ameri- cans, into a large monument that was never completed. In Florence during 1793 the artist transformed his original terra cotta study of Jefferson into a larger-than-life bust in marble, writing to Jefferson on 11 Mch. 1794 to report the work was finished.

Jefferson, Thomas. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 28: 1 January 1794 to 29 February 1796. United States, Princeton University Press, 2018.

We luckily still have Hamilton's to this day, stylized in a Roman form by Giuseppe Ceracchi. When Ceracchi took a visit to the US in 1791-92, he proposed a monument in honor of the Revolution and appealed to Congress to finance the project. Ceracchi had attempted to raise the funds for the memorial, and Jefferson endorsed him and told Robert Livingston that he was; “a very celebrated sculptor from Rome.” [x] But unfortunately, Congress closed the proposal on May 7th, 1792.

Today, Jefferson's bust has been replaced with a copy that you can find at Monticello.

#amrev #american history #alexander hamilton #historical alexander hamilton #thomas jefferson #monticello #history #founding fathers #queries #sincerely anonymous #cicero's history lessons

[tj-monticello]

Today’s final jeopardy was literally “Which president lived at ‘little mountain’?”

Everyone got it wrong 😑

#thomas jefferson #monticello #jeopardy

[ragemovement]

Xcel says they discovered the leak back in November. Good thing we are just hearing about this now.

The estimated cleanup could take a year.

#politics #news #capitalism #minnesota #monticello #nuclear waste #pollution #infrastructure

[hiidkwhatimdoing7525]

the amazing effects of the 0.5x on Camera

#monticello #thomas jefferson #amrev #shit post

[electriccotton]

Historically my favorite room ever.

#monticello #American architecture #Jefferson

[unteriors]

Highway 1258, Monticello, Kentucky.

#Monticello #Kentucky

[18thcentury]

From Thomas Jefferson's porch. The east side of Monticello. 10-28-23

#thomas jefferson #monticello #18th century

[chaotic-history]

just realised i forgot to post monticello pictures so here! i'll put the outdoor photos here and i'll make a different post for the photos from inside the house since i have a lot

the area really is so beautiful

#monticello #thomas jefferson #mini tjeff came along for photo ops lol