A Bit of Strasbourg
date: label: Date
content: August 16, 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: View of two or three-story buildings nestled in the foreground of a tall Romanesque style masonry tower. The buildings are crowded together in the character of a medieval settlement. All have steeply pitched roofs and chimneystacks that punctuate their rooflines. Only the upper section of the tower is visible but the visible façade contains two round-arched windows consisting of a double-lancet and trefoil format. Immediately above this is a blind arcade. This is separated from the next story above by a projecting cornice. The tower has four narrow lancet window openings directly below the roofline. The roofline is broken slightly as it meets the cornice. A figural finial, possibly a rooster or hen, surmounts the roof.
place: label: made in
content: Strasbourg, France
label: place depicted
content: Strasbourg, 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: 1943-51-91
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: 31.1 x 23.6 cm (12 1/4 x 9 5/16 in.), irregular