Designs for House of L. M. Davenport, New Rochelle, in the Tuscan Style (ground plan)
1835–92
Medium
Ink and watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
Accession Number
24.66.830
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of 19th American domestic architecture with Alexander Jackson Davis *Designs for House of L. M. Davenport, New, in the Tuscan Style (ground plan, dated 1835–92. This intimate 11 x 14-inch sheet, rendered in ink and watercolor over graphite, a precise ground plan for a villa commissioned by L. M. Davenport in the suburb of New Rochelle, New York. Davis, a leading architect of his time, championed romantic European styles in the young United States, making this drawing a snapshot of elite suburban aspirations. The Tuscan style, with its robust columns and simplified ...
About the Artist
Alexander Jackson Davis · 1803–1892
Alexander Jackson Davis (1803–1892) was a pioneering American architect whose imaginative designs helped define the nation's picturesque country house tradition. Born in New York City on July 24, 1803, Davis received an informal education, studying drawing at the American Academy of the Fine Arts, the New-York Drawing Association, and the antique casts at the National Academy of Design. He apprent...