Item Number: 146038 Title: Drawn from History: Architectural Drawings from Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Author: Van Zante, Gary ; James O'Gorman Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781455620081 Description: Gretna: Pelican Publishing, 2018. 28cm., hardcover, 272pp. illus. Summary: This illustrated volume presents drawings by James Gallier, James Dakin, Thomas Sully, and more, with discussions of their projects and related architectural drawings, most of which are previously unpublished. The work examines the evolving role of drawing in the profession, New Orleans' place in this process, tools and techniques of the drafting room, the post-Civil War emergence of the architect as artist, and the new technique of blueprinting.
(^Available February 2018^)
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