The practical book of early American arts and crafts . bbon,and the Brothers Adam; he was also their peer inoriginality as well as in fidelity to the best classic tra-ditions. More chaste and severe than Wren and Gibbon,he was more fanciful than Adam. Perhaps it was hisvery freedom from the schools that gave him faith inhis own genius to do the thing that best suited givenconditions, and this faith seldom led him astray. Mclntire also tried his hand at sculpture to someextent, and executed in wood several medallion like-nesses of General Washington and a bust of GovemourWinthrop. The Washingto
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . bbon,and the Brothers Adam; he was also their peer inoriginality as well as in fidelity to the best classic tra-ditions. More chaste and severe than Wren and Gibbon,he was more fanciful than Adam. Perhaps it was hisvery freedom from the schools that gave him faith inhis own genius to do the thing that best suited givenconditions, and this faith seldom led him astray. Mclntire also tried his hand at sculpture to someextent, and executed in wood several medallion like-nesses of General Washington and a bust of GovemourWinthrop. The Washington medallion was first de-signed and carved in 1805 as a decoration for thewestern gateway of Washington Square, in Salem,Massachusetts, and was fashioned after drawingsfrom life made by Mclntire during Washingtons visitto Salem in 1789. Another carver of sig!ilal ability was William Bush,of Philadelphia, bom July 4, 1756. He was appren-ticed to Edward Cutbush, the then best carver of his See The Architecture of Colonial America, H. D. Eberlein, ;-y^ ^mfmm ,.^^ CARVED AND PAINTED PRESS OR CUPBOARD FOR SCIENTIFIC INSTRU-MENTS, PRESENTED TO THE PHILADELPHIA LIBRARY BY THEHONOURABLE JOHN PENN, 1738Courtesy of Library Company of Philadelphia WOOD AND STONE CARVING 315 day, in Philadelphia. He specialised in carvingfigureheads for ships and his work elicited such uni-versal admiration both in British and in foreign partsthat he received orders from England. His best knownand, perhaps, his finest piece of wooden sculpture is thestatue of Washington in the State House in Philadel-phia. The motifs employed in the Georgian architecturalwood-carving were chiefly of classic provenance or elseof Renaissance or Baroque inspiration, tempered by aclassic spirit of interpretation. They included roses,rosettes, foliated scrolls, acanthus leaves (Fig. 3), eggand dart courses, urns with flame or cover tops, swagsand drops of flowers or drapery, cockle-shells, pine-apples, masques, and, t
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