Black Forest Sketches
date: label: Date
content: September 18, 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet with frayed bottom and right edge. Illustrated are sketches of buildings and architectural features. Beginning from top left are two domed steeples, both with shingled onion-shaped cupolas and tall finials. At right is an elevation of a timbered building with a large, deep gable on both stories which shade open windows with shutters. In the center is a very small sketch of a dormer within a shingled or tiled roof. At lower left is likely the same gabled building sketched on the upper half of the sheet, but now viewed from a corner angle, the gables supported by very large timbers which the artist identifies as being "at least 3 ft." At lower right is a very quickly sketched tiled or shingled roof with an awkwardly oversize "bell" cupola, as it is named by the artist. The cupola projects from the roof on a very thin support, and balloons above it. The cupola is shingled, and terminates in a small ball finial with weathervane.
place: label: made in
content: Gaggenau, Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1943-51-127
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Album page
label: Type
content: Album page
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, on cream wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 31.1 x 23.7 cm (12 1/4 x 9 5/16 in.), irregular