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 153
newmodel of richness in so many respects, there were blocks and scrolls as well, andthis was imitated in the Jeremiah Lee and other houses. The earliest examples ofthe scroll ends, at Tuckahoe (figure 97) and Rosewell, are carved somewhat in themanner of Gibbons, with foliage and flowers rather… … From a photo^-aph by Irtink Cohskh Figure 96. The stairs at Graeme Park1721 to 1722 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY initiated the use of a scroll block sawn to fantastic profile, in which a beaklike ele-ment predominates, and this was henceforth the commonest form, occurring atWhitby, Woodford, Mount…
