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

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 typeof [sic] the / Amsterdam synagogues of the previous century Harrison lavished the resou [sic] / of English Palladian design, copying the galleries from Jones' / 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)

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