Sketches of Architectural Details, Baden
date: label: Date
content: September 8, 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 three sketches of architectural details. At left, a slender tower with octagonal domed cupola rises from a tiled roof. Adjacent to the base of the tower is a cross seen in a three-quarter view. The tower consists of two repeated sections: an arcade topped by an octagonal dome, that is surmounted by a tall finial with a ball and weathervane. According to the artist's inscription, the cupola is made of "black slate / and wood / painted black." At upper right is a very low dormer over a window that breaks the tiled roofline of, as the artist notes, a "convent / Baden." Below right is the detailed sketch of a two-story dormer with glazed window and half-timbering decoration on the facade. The artist notes that in the "top window there is a swinging oak bracket / for handing things up with."
place: label: made in
content: Baden, 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: 1943-51-118
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: 30.1 x 23 cm (11 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.), irregular