Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic (1922)
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 162
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Several of these are still preserved. In the drawing-room from Marmion in Vir-ginia, now in the Metropolitan Museum, the panels bear paintings, some in deco-rative designs with vases, garlands, and horns of plenty, others with scenes on the … From a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 106. Chimneypiece in the saloon, Kenmore terrace of a chateau. The legend that these were executed by a Hessian prisonerscarcely requires credence after what we have learned of Kenmore. Summarizing the phases of style shown by interiors, we may observe that…
Architecture, Domestic · Architecture, Colonial
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