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 83
0 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY the derivation ot both from English handbooks. Such a theory arises merely be-cause appreciation of these smaller English houses, which have been eclipsed bytheir great neighbors, has only come after the Colonial work has been long familiar.Armed with books, a cultivated… … Frotn a pfiotooraph by H. P. Cook Figure 35. Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia. 1758 in practice. The drawings made, with rare exceptions, were few and crude. Evenin England, in 1700, conditions were similar, and the desirability of drawings forordinary buildings had still to be argued. Tis…
