This album consists of photographs of Gertrude and Sarah Jane Sanford as they traveled through Greece, Turkey, Italy, and Canada, and at home in New York and Maryland.
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, 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, 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, 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, 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.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of the exterior of the Semper-Synagoge (Semper Synagogue), also known as the Dresdner Synagoge (Dresden Synagogue) or Alte Synagoge (Old Synagogue). Original drawing by Fritz Beckert. From Dresden : eine kunstbetrachtende Wanderung, mit 13 farbigen Abbildungen nach Gemälden und 27 Zeichnungen von Professor Fritz Beckert; Text von Robert Bruck.
