The country house; a practical manual of the planning and construction of the American country home and its surroundings (1905)
Hooper, Charles Edward, 1867- · New York : Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 107
w panelled,were painted. This painting was muchinfluenced by the work of the classicfresco painters. While Italy embraced the classictradition and made free use of it in herdoors and doorways, she made littleuse of wood carving. The French, onthe other hand, generally avoided thesevere lines of the… … Doorway of old Custom-house, Portsmouth, N. H. Thisfine example has a touch of the Gothic in the entablature. It isperhaps a little light in composition with brick. Architraves were usually of wood, often richly carved—an entablature supportedby wooden brackets—and the overdoor motive was sometimes…
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