Sketch of House, Blois
date: label: Date
content: May 10, 1888
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet depicting a large half-timber and plaster building at left with an enclosed space at the second story that connects to the adjacent structure at right. Under this enclosed space is an open walkway tow a courtyard beyond. The room has beams underneath which extend to trusses that support it against the walls of the buildings on the left and right. The facade of the building on the left has a projecting cornice at the second story which is at the same level of the beams supporting the enclosed space. This cornice is supported below by decorative wooden brackets with a cyma curve. An example of one of these brackets is drawn at lower left, shown from the front and a profile that is scaled.
place: label: made in
content: Blois, France
label: place depicted
content: Blois, 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: 1943-51-202
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: 30.7 x 23.3 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.), irregular