Aiken-Rhett House and Nathaniel Russell House Photographs

Photograph

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Historic Charleston Foundation

1: Exterior, southwest elevation

1: Exterior, southwest elevation

Name/Title

Aiken-Rhett House and Nathaniel Russell House Photographs

Entry/Object ID

2008.003.17

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

Collection

HCF Image Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2008.003.

Source or Donor

New Photos Catalog Records (2008)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Made/Created

Artist

McKee, Rick

Date made

2008

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Moldings, Stairhalls, Wallpaper, Cornices, Piazzas, Kitchens, Drawing rooms, Privies, Entrance halls, Bedrooms, Dressing tables, Dining rooms, Staircases, Parlors

Search Terms

Slave quarters, Aiken-Rhett House (Charleston, S.C.), Nathaniel Russell House (Charleston, S.C.), Slaves--Dwellings--South Carolina--Charleston, Outbuildings--South Carolina--Charleston, Carriage houses--South Carolina--Charleston, Trompe l'oeil, Interior architecture, Doors, Medallions (Architecture), Plasterwork, Decorative

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Photograph, Digital

Location

Location

Container

CD Box 1

Shelf

AV Materials

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Container

PhotoBox 10

Shelf

AV Materials, AV Materials

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Provenance

Notes

Rick McKee hired to take photographs for the book Grandeur Preserved.

Copyright

Copyright Details

Per Museums Dept. Director Fielding Freed, HCF owns the copyright for all photographs. See Multimedia Link.

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

Digital images only. High resolution jpgs available for each image in this record on DVD labeled "Grandeur Preserved." Photo 5 in this record by Carroll Ann Bowers, 10/24/2007, on DVD 21.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

December 9, 2008

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

July 25, 2023