Scrapbook -- Mirrors, Ceiling Details, Globes

Description

Untitled scrapbook. Scrapbook has red fabric cover and is held together by twine laced through six eyelets. The number "10" is handwritten on spine. Scrapbook contains 50 pages. The bulk of the materials are clippings from 19th century and 20th century periodicals, catalogs, and magazines, such as "Arts and Decoration," "House and Garden," "Country Life," and "The American Architect." Pages from an unknown edition of "The Architectural Record" containing an article on "English Architectural Decoration" are inserted between pages 44 and 45. The clippings depict mirrors, frames, ceiling details (painted, wooden, and plaster), and globes from American and European sources.. Items depicted range in date from the 17th to early 20th centuries and are in a wide variety of styles. Names of owner,architect and location are noted on some clippings. No known clients of A. H. Davenport Co., Irving and Casson, or Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport were noted.