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 125
MESTIC ARCHITECTURE is no longer sprawling, the pedestals are omitted. In Jeffersons design for Mon-ticello (figure 72), 1771, finally, the scheme—a favorite one with Palladio (figure73)—was reproduced with strict Palladian accuracy both in proportions and in de-tail. The upper order seems never… … Ctp\rit,!tt, ItiO, by Lhi-.t .1 Figure 72. Design for Monticelln. Thomas JefFerson. 1771From the original drawing in the CooHdge collection ing, is popularly thought of as specially characteristic of the Colonial house, but itwill be found that only a single example can be proved to be prior to the…
