Staircase 2nd Half XVII century from Cologne / Museum at Amsterdam
date: label: Date
content: August 26, 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet depicting on recto a wooden balcony or gallery and circular staircase with balustrade sketched quickly, containing many inscriptions by the artist defining the details which are not fully worked. The horizontal balcony element is supported by a heavy beam, the end post terminating at top and bottom with "cupid faces" as defined by the artist. Below the beam at right is a figural wood corbel that the artist describes as "wooden... / support bar". The newel post at the top of the staircase has "a lion with shield and arms (not so high)"; underneath the newel post opposite to this, presumably hanging from the beam obscured by the staircase, is what the artist describes as "a pendant under this post" in the shape of "a monkey". The staircase is carved along the top edge and has what the artist defines as a "scroll, small french curve" below. The rail is connected to the baseboard by balusters, and consists of three registers: a "leaf" at top, a "scroll" in the middle, and "leaf egg" with a "bead" below. The treads at the bottom of the staircase fan out into a curved bottom stop wider than the rest of the staircase. The artist notes to the right of the bottom newel post "columns .... around it".
label: Description
content: Depicted on verso is a small band of scrolls contained in a rectangle; another small sketch of wavy lines framed by beading at top and bottom.
place: label: made in
content: Amsterdam, 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: 1943-51-107
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 gray paperboard tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: 31 x 23.6 cm (12 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.), irregular