Architectural Elements, France
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1889
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet illustrating five sketches of buildings or architectural features. The top half of the sheet consists of two cupolas, each has a composition of columns supporting a small domical roof. The roof of the cupola at left is like curved mansard with a flat panel at the top and a tall, narrrow finial above. The one at right has an ogee-curved roof with finial and small weathervane. Below this in the center is a sketch of the top of a tower which also has a cupola. The cupola is split into ten parts, each having a lancet separated by a scroll. To the right is a timbered building seen in section and elevation. It consists of three stories, each is like a gallery or loggia with long, flat-arch arcades, and enclosed by a timbered railing. At bottom left is another elevation of a timbered building with only the roof sketched. Within the gable are two rows of dark spots or holes, that the artist notes are pieces of broken pipe inserted into the façade for use by birds as nesting spots.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: place depicted
content: France
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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: 1943-51-238
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 thick cream wove paper tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 31 x 23.5 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.), irregular