Architectural Sketches, Soissons and Laon
date: label: Date
content: May 27, 1888
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet with two sketches of architectural elements. At left is a short tower rising from a roofline. The tower has flattened double arches which are louvered, an an ogee cupola faceted steeple with finial and weathervane above. At right is the corner of a building ending in a gabled roof that has only been partially rendered. At the corner of the roof is a gutter and turret with a small window, and lower roof with window below it.
place: label: made in
content: Laon, France
label: place depicted
content: Laon, France
label: place depicted
content: Soissons, France
label: made in
content: Soissons, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1943-51-207
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: 31.5 x 23.7 cm (12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.), irregular