Architectural Details, Basel
date: label: Date
content: September 27, 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 numerous sketches of architectural elements. Clockwise from bottom left: a dormer with ogee-shaped roof, gutter, and small gargoyle spout at the corner. This same spout is drawn to the left. Above this is a horizontal fountain spout in the shape of a man blowing into a pipe. In the top half of the sheet are three sketches: below left is a window made of five round-arched lancets that graduate in size. The window is flanked by louvered shutters. Above is the arched top of a doorway filled with greyish black scrolling ironwork. At right is a dormer with a tiled roof that cantilevers far over the window opening below it. The cantilever is supported by ogee brackets on either side of the window.
place: label: made in
content: Basel, Switzerland
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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: 1943-51-138
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: Brush and watercolor, graphite on cream paperboard tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 31.2 x 23.7 cm (12 5/16 x 9 5/16 in.), irregular