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 150
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… … ^^itttM tA t^- /.i^^A.M^ * t-t j/V»«t.~-/^^./ • *; Figure 93. Chimneypiece from Swans British Architect, plate 50. With elementsused in Mount Vernon and the Brice house of the lintel slab is profiled more richly, and there is the suggestion of a mouldedkeystone. It was a facing like this, as we see…
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