tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post5251940951020650010..comments2024-03-18T07:26:19.953-07:00Comments on Daytonian in Manhattan: The 1820s No. 11 Bleecker StreetTom Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-24844090247780158802015-07-31T10:56:42.778-07:002015-07-31T10:56:42.778-07:00Agreed!!Agreed!!Magnuspetriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12625586892328226122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-76325236816560016962015-07-31T07:55:51.017-07:002015-07-31T07:55:51.017-07:00I think the window and the view are a Victorian ro...I think the window and the view are a Victorian romanticism. I doubt that the window is an accurate depiction at all--notice the absurd proportions when compared to the sitters. I have studied that painting ad nauseum and cannot come to a conclusion. I wouldn't mind having it hanging on my wall, though!Tom Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-9794635756720213232015-07-31T07:34:56.308-07:002015-07-31T07:34:56.308-07:00Great post. Do you have any idea of what the origi...Great post. Do you have any idea of what the original facade and floor plan would have been? The Carter portrait is most intriguing as well. The Carters are posed in front of a window that appears to be four panes wide, so we must assume (if the portrait's background is indeed 11 Bleeker) that the drawing room window was at least double the width of the house's remaining windows. The scene outside the window is puzzling though, if the interior depicted is indeed 11 Bleeker; it seems too bucolic for a City Street, and too expansive to have been a conventional NYCity back yard. Of course, it could also be "poetic license" on the part of the artist. My guess, though, is that the portrait depicts another interior, perhaps a country house of the Carters. What do you think?Magnuspetriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12625586892328226122noreply@blogger.com