Work on paper, 47.5cm x 24cm. A sketch of a suggested marquee for the National City Bank of New York at 9 West 51st Street, New York, New York for Walker & Gillette Architects.
Work on paper, 24cm x 35cm. Front contains a drawing of a street scene in Charleston, South Carolina. Back includes a drawing of boats docked at a pier in Charleston, South Carolina.
Pencil on paper, 34.5cm x 24.5cm. Drawing, measurements, and description of architectural details of the main façade of the Palazzo Piccolomini in Siena, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 35cm x 24cm. Front contains various drawings, descriptions, and measurements of architectural details of brick work such as cornices and window shelves in Siena, Italy. Back depicts additional drawings and descriptions of architectural details Stone niche in the oratory of a church in San Gimignano, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34.5cm x 24.5cm. Front contains various drawings, descriptions, and measurements of architectural details such as a wood and stone cornice and a stone trim around an entrance in Siena, Italy. Also included are details of the main façade of the Palazzo Piccolomini in Siena, Italy and a main cornice in the Palazzo Sallustio Bandini in Siena, Italy. Back includes additional drawings, descriptions and measurements of various architectural details from the Palazzo Sallustio Bandini in Siena, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings, descriptions, and measurements of various architectural details including a stone window trim at the Museo nazionale del Bargello in Florence, Italy, and a decorative stone architrave around a small door opening in on the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy. Back includes additional drawings and descriptions of architectural details in France. Including details in a small Louis XV salon at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, France and engaged colonnette shafts at the Bourges Cathedral in Bourges, France.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front depicts drawings and descriptions of a vestibule in the Piazza Santissima Annunziata as well as "heavy stone ribs supporting groined vaulting" in the Refectory, San Marco, Florence, Italy. The back contains drawings and descriptions of the stucco ceiling of the Entrance Lodge, Certosa Di Pavia in Lombardy, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 14cm x 21cm. Front contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various components of a wrought iron gate catch on the fence of a house at 9th Street and 5th Avenue. The back depicts additional unidentified architectural drawings.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes descriptions, drawings, and measurements of various architectural details including a stone coffer in a stone ceiling at the Roman Temple of Diane, in Nimes, France. Back contains a drawing of the exterior of an old farmhouse near Siena, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of a bay in Sant'Ambrogio Church, Milan, Italy. Back contains drawings and measurements of the capitals in the atrium of the Church of San Ambrogio, Milan, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 12.5cm x 18cm. Contains drawings of various architectural details including a wood cornice on old brick buildings in 7th Avenue, below 11th Avenue, New York, and a light transom bar above a doorway in Greenwich Village, New York.
Pencil on paper, 21.5cm x 28cm. Front contains a drawing of a wood mantel breast at the house of George and Mary Chadwick in Lyme, Connecticut containing various descriptions and measurements. Back includes drawings, descriptions, and measurements of a wood mantel breast and various architectural details.
Pencil on paper, 18.5cm x 14cm. Front contains drawings and descriptions of plaster rosettes in radiating panels of a hemispherical dome over main stairs from an old house at 14 West 12th in New York City. Back includes notes and figures.
Pencil on paper, 21cm x 28cm. Front includes drawings and descriptions of various column caps on Chestnut Street and Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts. Back contains additional drawings of column and pilaster caps at 12 Chestnut Street in Salem, Massachusetts.
Pencil on paper, 17.5cm x 12.5cm. Front includes a drawing of various details and measurements of an ornamental wrought iron fence painted black at an old house on the south side of Washington Square, and author's notes on the location and appearance of the fence. Back contains an unidentified drawing.
Pencil on paper, 18cm x 14cm. Drawing of a plaster ornament in high relief forming a running band at the spring of the skylight dome. It is over the main stairs in a house at 14 West 12th Street, New York. The document is dated August 19, 1923.
Pencil on paper, 27.5cm x 21.5cm. Drawings and descriptions of cast iron and wrought iron details of a fence on Chestnut Street in Salem, Massachusetts.
Pencil on paper, 18cm x 13cm. Drawings and descriptions of a various architectural details including a cast iron or lead and a detail of rosette at 31 Charlton Street, New York.
Pencil on paper, 28cm x 22cm. Front contains various drawings, descriptions, and measurements of architectural details surrounding an interior window on stairs. Back includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of architectural details such as the cap of a pilaster.
Pencil on paper, 35cm x 24.5cm. Front includes drawings and descriptions of architectural details including a Byzantine capital and ornamental molding form the Cloisters of Mondreale Cathedral in Palermo, Italy. Back contains additional drawings and descriptions of various architectural details including column caps, iron fences, ceiling structures, and details of a courtyard in Tunis, Tunisia.
Pencil on paper, 18cm x 12.5cm. Drawing, descriptions, and measurements of the front door panel molding and outside window casing of the Chase House in Annapolis, Maryland.
Pencil on paper, 21cm x 27.5cm. Front depicts an architectural drawing, measurements, and descriptions of the kitchen building in the garden at 43 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts. Back includes various drawings and descriptions of architectural details.
Pencil on paper, 26.5cm x 21.5cm. The front includes drawings and descriptions of a white and gold empire ceiling in Ville Petraia, Castello, Italy. Back contains drawings and descriptions of various swags in relief.
Pencil on paper, 28cm x 22cm. Front contains drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details of the Sheppard House at 59 Smith Street. Back includes drawings, measurements, plan of a lower step, and descriptions of a doorway and staircase.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings and descriptions of various architectural details such as roofs, windows and columns from the Cathe?drale Saint-Etienne de Bourges in Bourges, France. Back contains an outdoor scene of an old farmhouse of stucco just outside of Siena, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 28.5cm x 22cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of architectural details. Back includes additional drawings and measurements of architectural details surrounding a door.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings and descriptions of various architectural details including campaniles and reliefs including a band of ornamental grape vines at the Cloister of Saint-Trophine and a wooden processional in Arles, France. Back contains drawings and descriptions of various architectural details including stone brackets and stone ribs in a groined ceiling in Bargello, Florence, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 34cm x 26cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, and descriptions of various architectural details in the Palazzo Guadagni from Pistoia, Italy, including a basement floor, stone steps, and a brick chimney. Back contains drawings, descriptions, and measurements of the iron details from a fence around the "Arte Delle Lana" in Florence, Italy.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings, descriptions, and measurements of motives from the marble mosaic floor of the Santa Maria Assunta cathedral nave in Torcello, Italy. Back contains additional drawings, descriptions, and measurements of the mosaic floor of the Santa Maria Assunta cathedral nave, as well as a sketch of the exterior view of an unidentified building.
Pencil on paper, 31cm x 21cm. Front includes drawings, measurements, descriptions, and author's notes on several mosaics in the Basilica di S. Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. Back contains similar information, and states "Motives from marble mosaic floor. From church of San Vitale, at Ravenna."
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