Sketches of Architectural Details
date: label: Date
content: September 14, 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Whitney Warren Jr., American, 1864–1943
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Vertical sheet illustrating five sketches of buildings or architectural elements. Beginning at top left is a simple, timber-frame structure with steeple in the center of the main façade. The eaves are ornamented with bargeboard decoration underneath. At top right is a small ogee canopy over an open casement window. The canopy appears to be tiled. This small sketch is identified by the artist as "Forsbach / Valley of the Murg / Black Forest". At center is a half-timbered building with steeply pitched roof, and the artist has noted a small addition to the corner of the building which is prominently supported by large timbers underneath. At lower right is a small tower with faceted onion dome cupola and four-sided finial or weathervane. The drawing at lower left is much larger than the others, and illustrates a shingeled, timber-frame structure with two story tower completed by a tiled steeple with ball finial surmounted by a cross.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1943-51-124
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: 32 x 25 cm (12 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)