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Elevation for banking house & office / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York. – Antique Wall Art

Elevation for banking house & office / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York., [published 1865] — antique lithograph
Elevation for banking house & office / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York., [published 1865]. Antique lithograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Elevation for banking house & office / lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, New York.

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Unlike the other facades on this board, this one is a design for a banking house and office, printed as plate 67 in an 1865 catalog of the Architectural Iron Works of New York. The firm sold cast-iron fronts that could be ordered from a catalog, cast in sections, and bolted together on site, which let a building have a tall, classical-looking facade at a fraction of the cost of carved stone. The color lithograph was made by Sarony, Major & Knapp, a New York lithography firm, so the drawing doubled as a sales piece. Its slender columns and large window openings show how iron let commercial architecture admit more light than masonry walls could.

Created / published[published 1865]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreBook illustrations 1860-1870.Elevations 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870.
NotesIllus. in: Illustrations of iron architecture, made by the Architectural Iron Works of the city of New York. New York : Baker & Godwin, printers, 1865, pl. 67. No. 22.
SubjectsArchitectural Iron Works (Firm)--Products--1860-1870. Facades--1860-1870. Banks--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,135 × 1,452 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216881

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