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 152
use include one of 1767 for 4 marble chimney pieces withhearths.^ Governor Tryon enclosed in one of his letters of 1769 a description ofthe finest of the chimneypieces for his house: G. Schuyler, The Schuyler Mansion, p. 6.126 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY For the Council Chamber in the Governors House at… … Figure 95. Chimneypiece from Kents Design of Inigo Jones, plate 64. Prototypeof the Council Chamber mantel in the Wentworth House, Little Harbor King & Queen on the Frieze over the Columns, the mouldings enriched, a large statuarymarble slab and black marble covings.Messrs. Devol &…
