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 146
ometime after 1745, at earliest. The most elaborate of all the chimneypieces carved in the colonies (figure 94),that ot the Council Chamber of the Governor Wentworth house at Little Harbor,near Portsmouth, with its termini supporting the mantel, is derived from plate 64in William Kents Designs of… … THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are known to have been in the colonies. There is a somewhat similar design inSwans book, plate ^4, but this has no overmantel and is otherwise not so nearlyidentical with the American example. Facings of marble for the fireplace opening were often provided, the oldesthouses…
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