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Design I. Oriental Villa: Fig. 21 - Ground Floor [plan] – Historic Reproduction

Design I. Oriental Villa: Fig. 21 - Ground Floor [plan] — antique engraving
Design I. Oriental Villa: Fig. 21 - Ground Floor [plan]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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Design I. Oriental Villa: Fig. 21 - Ground Floor [plan]

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This plan shows the ground floor of an "Oriental Villa," labeled Design I and Fig. 21, from Samuel Sloan's *Sloan's Homestead Architecture*, published in Philadelphia by J.B. Lippincott & Co. in 1861. Sloan was a Philadelphia architect whose pattern books offered middle-class Americans ready-made designs for country houses and villas. The "Oriental" label reflects the mid-century fashion for exotic, Moorish-inspired and Eastern-flavored architecture, which was often applied to picturesque suburban homes. The plate was engraved by F.J. Pilliner, and its floor layout shows how such fashionable exteriors were arranged inside.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes1861
SubjectsEngraving by F.J. Pilliner. Illus. in: Samuel Sloan, Sloan's Homestead Architecture....Phila., J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1861. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Furniture; Arch.--Designs & plans; PI--WORKS; Artists, Publ. Index; Dwellings; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,383 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129699

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