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 277
he brothers Adam and of Louis X\T. Instead of the luxuriant cur\-es of shell-work which had preceded, it employed classical motives, such as mythological fig-ures, grif?ins, urns, medallions, and slender garlands of husks or of cirapery. 254 HOUSES OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC This elaborate and tenuous… … Figure 214. Interior door at the Woodlands. 1788Courtesy of Ogden Codnian treatment of mantels and other features, but not such full-size details as wouldenable men unfamiliar with the style to carve the ornament successfully. Thecement stucco and plaster compositions developed by the Adams and…
