Sketches of Details and Plan of Architectural Elements, Tower at Milan, Italy
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet tipped horizontally into binding consisting mainly of inscriptions and a few small sketches. At center left is a plan view of an arcade supported by three columns. To the right of this is a small column supporting an architrave and rendered separately below it is the base of the same column, its dimensions included as well. At bottom left is another molding profile. The verso contains a similarly high ratio of inscriptions to sketches. At the very top of the sheet is a small, square plan, and to the right of it a view in plan of a span supported by a composition of double colonettes and a single colonette. The rest of the sheet below this contains inscriptions.
place: label: made in
content: Milan, Italy
label: place depicted
content: Milan, Italy
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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: 1943-51-322
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 smooth, thick off-white wove paperboard tipped into binding with fabric
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 25.1 x 16.3 cm (9 7/8 x 6 7/16 in.), irregular