About this artwork
New York architect Peter B. Wight was one of the first to bring the High Victorian Gothic style from England
to the United States. Wight used this style for many early commissions, such as this house for industrialist Eliphalet Blatchford and his family, built just after the Great Chicago Fire. With polychromatic masonry, metalwork, and an asymmetrical form, this house would have stood out in Chicago as a bold hybrid of influences from 19th-century Great Britain and 15the-century Italy. Wight’s designs for the interior of the house also embraced the modern idea of gesamtkunstwerk, or cohesive design, with medievalinspired
schemes for woodwork, furnishings, and brightly colored wall papers.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Peter Bonnett Wight (Architect)
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Title
- Eliphalet W. Blatchford House, Chicago, Illinois, LaSalle Street Elevation and Partial Section
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Place
- LaSalle Street, 375 North (Building address)
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Date
- 1873–1875
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Medium
- Ink and watercolor on paper
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Dimensions
- 51 × 63 cm (20 1/16 × 24 13/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Peter Bonnett Wight
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Reference Number
- 1989.412
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/90507/manifest.json
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