Rear of Old City Hall, Gernsbach, Germany
date: label: Date
content: August 10, 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 view looking into a narrow street framed on either side by walls of buildings. At right there is only a view under the eaves of the building. The buildings at left are rendered in greater detail, with particular attention paid to the intricate roofline fo the city hall building. The roofs are all steeply pitched, broken occasionally by chimneys and finials. The city hall's façade projects wider than the building and its roofline ends in a "crow-step" or "trapgevel" gables with scrolls, typical of German and Dutch Reniassance architecture. The stpes have three ball and spike finials visible, while the central step has a finial that terminates in a crescent moon.
place: label: made in
content: USA
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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: 1943-51-87
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: 31.7 x 23.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.), irregular