1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Creation Date
1763
Photographer
Nicholas Romano
Location
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
temples (buildings)
Image Type
photographic prints
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[typed:] DATE: 1763. DESCRIPTION: TEMPLE JESHUATH ISRAEL, Touro Street, Newport. 1763 / By Peter Harrison, 1716-1775. Upon an interior of the type of the Amsterdam synagogues of the previous century Harrison lavished the resour- / ces of English Palladian design, copying the galleries from ones' Whitehall banquetting hall, other details from Gibbs, and the Ark of the Covenant from Langley and Kent. / BIBLIOGRAPHY: / NOTES:
Description
verso of photograph; Photograph exhibited in Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition, 1939, RISD Museum. Curated by RISD Museum Director Alexander Dorner (tenure 1938-1941) and architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
Keywords
architecture (discipline); temples (buildings)