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 136
Royall house, ^ Kimball, Thomas Jefferson, Architect, p. 130.IIO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY fifteen diameters in height, and the columns of the Roger Morris portico, some thir-teen diameters tall, are quite exceptional. It is just as easy to find examples ot lessthan the normal academic proportions,… … Figure 80. Drawing-room of the Miles Brewton house, Charleston. 1765 to 1769 and in America thus after the Revolution. The wide-spread change of proportions,which then first took place, was English in its origin and independent of material. In the Colonial interiors of the eighteenth century, as in…
