Aiken-Rhett House and Nathaniel Russell House Photographs

Description

Color photographs of the interior and exterior of the Aiken-Rhett House and Nathaniel Russell House, taken for the book Grandeur Preserved.

ARH

#1-4: Exterior, southwest elevation

#5: South elevation

#6: Art gallery

#7: Entry hall

#8: Wallpaper panel

#9: West parlor

#10: East parlor

#11: Detail of plaster parlor ceiling medallion

#12: Bust of Proserpine

#13: Dining room

#14: Library

#15: Stair hall

#16: Drawing room

#17: Warming kitchen

#18: Slave quarter and east dependency

#19 East bedchamber

#20: East dressing room

#21: Dressing table with wrought-iron drapery frame

#22: View of the privy

#23: Kitchen

#24: West bedchamber

#25: Backyard overview showing outbuildings, magnolia trees from original allee

#26-27: Slave quarters hallway

#28: Sauce tureen with cover and stand

#29: Fish slice and fork set

#30: Rear view of house showing slave quarters and stables/carriage house

#31: Piazza with joggling board

NRH

#32: Nathaniel Russell House through gate

#33: Front door and balcony

#34: Detail of stairs, flying staircase

#35-36: Entry, entry room

#37: Stair hall

#38-39: Dining room

#40: Office

#41: Back parlor

#42: Drawing room

#43-44: Withdrawing room

#45: Bedroom / bedchamber

#46: Original trompe l'oeil painted cornice, third-floor bedroom

#47: Detail of drawing room faux bois

#48: Detail of cornice in drawing room

#49: Portrait of Sarah Russell Dehon

#50-51: Detail of the moulding and cornices

#52: Sass desk (office)

#53: View of garden from second-floor balcony