1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Creation Date
1763
Photographer
Arthur LeBoeuf
Location
Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
temples (buildings)
Image Type
photographic prints; enlargements (copies)
Image Measurements
width: 30 inches, height: 40 inches
Inscription
[typed label, bottom right:] TEMPLE JESHUATH ISRAEL, 1763 / Touro Street, Newport / Architect: Peter Harrison / Upon an interior of the type of the Amsterdam synagogue of the / previous century Harrison lavished the resources of English / Palladion[sic] design, copying the galleries from Jones' Whitehead[correction: Whitehall] / Banqueting Hall, other details from Gibbs, and the Arts[correction: Ark] of the / Covenant for Langley and Kent. / Photo by LeBoeuf
Description
interior; 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)