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 177
ry those ot Greek and eastern temples. The Library Company ofPhiladelphia had already acquired by 1770 copies of the first volume of StuartsAntiquities of Athens (1762), of Majors Ruins of Paestum (1768), and ofWoods Palmyra and Balbec. Jefferson secured many ot the same works be-tween 1785 and… … The different strands—inspiration fromthe classic, whether directly or throughthe English version of Pompeian deco-ration, influence from France towardfreer composition of plan and space—were variously interwoven. The South,under Jeffersons leadership, was firstto feel the direct classicism ot the…
