Sketches of Buildings and Architectural Elements
date: label: Date
content: August 21–22, 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Six sketches arranged on vertical sheet. At top left, two sketches of finials: one is a ball mounted with a crescent moon; the other is in the shape of an obelisk. At right, a three-story masonry house with steeply pitched, tiled roof, an elaborate 'trapgevel' façade in the Dutch manner. Above the second story is a date plaque on either end of the façade: ANNO 1623, with the initials of the original owner in the center of the plaque. The upper story was likely added to a three-over-three configuartion of the earlier building at the first and second stories. The upper window is framed by quoins of large blocks with two small, similarly detailed round-arched windows above. Tie rods decorate the upper levels of masonry while the lower half of the façade has a bracketed cornice below the date plaque. To the left of this sketch are two details of the brackets on the same house. They are in full Mannerist strapwork style and are seen both in elevation and from the side. Above this is a small sketch of a cartouche of the shield of Leiden in the form of a lion with yawning mouth sitting upright presenting a shield with crossed keys.
place: label: made in
content: Leiden, Netherlands
label: place depicted
content: Enkhuizen, Netherlands
label: place depicted
content: Leiden, Netherlands
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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: 1943-51-100
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 paperboard tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 31 x 23.8 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.), irregular