Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic, (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 145
ces after 1750, however, had a specialovermantel: a single large panel framed by an architrave, more or less elaborated.Two early overmantels are to be found at Graeme Park, built in 1721, but these THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are highly exceptional for their time. Ears on the architraves are almost… … I ■ I Ill ruin 11 III ■ r t i ii i i ^ i »t ■ ri i. i > i it^t; ■, > i.Tt-yiJPlilgnj M^ijj^iT 1ITJ11 III n 11 u n 111 uJLliiijij uj
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