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 138
oL i, pp. 286 fF. 112 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY tic instances of this except in the case of paper-hangings, hardware, and marblefireplace facings and mantels. It is true that Thomas Hancock wrote from hisnew house to England, March 22, 1739-40: I pray the favor of you Enquirewhat a pr. of Capitolls… … Figure 82. The dining-room, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson. 1771 to 1775 More against Hancock that when the lower room and the chamber were wain-scoted in 1745, More made the two pare of pilasters of the Corinthian order.Even paper-hangings began to be manufactured in the colonies by 1763.^ Domes-tic…
