The juvenile drawing-book : being the rudiments of the art, in a series of progressive lessons
The Juvenile Drawing-Book, published in Philadelphia in 1857 by John W. Moore and compiled from John Rubens Smith's earlier instruction, was a graded set of lessons teaching young students to draw. The pictures are plate-like pen sheets of simple houses, barns, arches and roofs built up from construction lines and perspective boxes, showing how basic architectural forms reduce to geometric shapes; a designer might borrow their clean line-based method for quick building studies or diagrammatic layouts.
