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Sloan's Constructive Architecture

Author Samuel Sloan American
Lithographer Rosenthal American
Publisher J. B. Lippincott Company American
1859
Not on view
148 pages, 66 plates. Binding of faded brown cloth, stamped with gold. This early American book carpentry includes a series of designs for domes, roofs, and spires, and documents current practices in carpentry and building construction, providing American variations on English and European practices. It is one of the first American architecture books to extensively use color illustrations.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Sloan's Constructive Architecture
  • Author: Samuel Sloan (American, Beaver Dam, Pennsylvania 1815–1884 Raleigh, North Carolina)
  • Lithographer: Rosenthal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company (Philadelphia)
  • Date: 1859
  • Medium: Illustrations: lithographs and color lithographs
  • Dimensions: 11 13/16 × 9 7/16 × 1 3/16 in. (30 × 24 × 3 cm)
  • Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
  • Object Number: 53.545.3
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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