1939 Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition
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Date Range
c. 1830
Location
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Worktype
historic houses
Image Type
black-and-white prints (prints on paper)
Image Measurements
8 inches x 10 inches
Inscription
[recto, top of bottom register, left:] Drawn by Peckham ; [recto, center of bottom register:] AMERICAN HOUSE, / By Richard Smith, / No. 69 North Main, and Corner of Steeple-Street / Opposite the First Babtist [sic] Meeting-House, / Providence R.I. ; [recto, top of bottom register, right:] Hidden So. Prov. ; [verso, handwritten in black ink, top:] "Print" in black ink on yellow paper - / owned by Mrs.[?] [illegible] Danforth[?] (1943)
Description
; Print of drawing by 19th-century American artist Edward Lewis Peckham depicting the American House as well as The Gorham Manufacturing Co. in the background, signage reading "Gorham Webster & Price Silver Spoons & Jewelry" and "Silver Thimble Manufactory"; 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)