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 86
0 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY the derivation of both from English handbooks. Such a theory arises merely be-cause appreciation of these smaller English houses, which have been eclipsed bytheir great neighbors, has only come after the Colonial work has been long familiar.Armed with books, a cultivated… … Front a photograph by H. P. Cook Figure 35. Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia. i_2£8 in practice. The drawings made, with rare exceptions, were few and crude. Evenin England, in 1700, conditions were similar, and the desirability of drawings forordinary buildings had still to be argued. Tis…
