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 158
letter of Lund Washington to Washington in 1775, which at the sametime fixes the date of the earliest stucco work at Mount ^ernon•. the stucco manhad completed the new room, the chimneypiece, and the dining-room ceiling,which was a handsomer one than any of Col Lewiss although not half the workon… … 133 AMERICAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE garlands of husks, with occasional filling of acanthus scroll work. The pattern inthe parlor (figure 104), both by its general form and by the crossed palm branchesof one of the corner panels, betrays a derivation from plate 170 (figure 105) of BattyLangleys City…
