Sketches of Architectural Elements, Buhl
date: label: Date
content: September 21, 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 sketches of timber structures and architectural details. At top left is a round-arched leaded glass window composed of round glass lenses and promient metal bars dividing the window vertically and horizontally. At right is the façade of a timber and plaster building with its upper stories fully rendered. The building has a tiled roof, deep eaves, and a projecting canopy. At center left are two sketches: the shuttered window of a water shed, and the detail of cross-beam paneling below. Below these is another quickly sketched half-timbered building (possibly the same as that shown above right). At bottom right is a stable seen from the side. Its has a pair of double doors with an open timbered slats above. Its right side is timber and plaster with a stone course below. It has a single door opening with a small square window to its proper right. Above this is another square window with prominent strap hinges also at proper right.
place: label: made in
content: Buhl, Germany
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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: 1943-51-130
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: 31.2 x 24 cm (12 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.), irregular