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 149
metime after 1745, at earliest. The most elaborate of all the chimneypieces carved in the colonies (figure 94),that of the Council Chamber of the Governor Wentworth house at Little Harbor,near Portsmouth, with its termini supporting the mantel, is derived from plate 64in William Kents Designs of… … tel in the Brice house, An-napolis THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY are known to have been in the colonies. There is a somewhat similar design inSwans book, plate 54, but this has no overmantel and is otherwise not so nearlyidentical with the American example. Facings of marble for the fireplace opening were…
