Plan of the ground floor and elevations of the front and back facades for a cruciform-plan hotel, arranged on a secondary support in the form of the triptych.

People:

Virgilio Marchi (role unspecified)

Title:

Plan of the ground floor and elevations of the front and back facades for a cruciform-plan hotel, arranged on a secondary support in the form of the triptych.

Date:

ca. 1920

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

exhibition drawing
publication drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and black ink with brown, orange and blue background highlights over graphite

Dimensions:

sheet (left sheet): 37.5 x 41.7 cm sheet (center sheet; irreg.): 50 x 59.3 cm sheet (right sheet): 36.8 x 46.7 cm

Reference number:

DR1986:0482:001-003

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)
elevations (drawings)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

Three of nine drawings (two elevations, one section, six floor plans) on seven sheets. The sheet containing the ground floor plan and two elevations is in the form of a triptych. The drawings, inks and graphite on paper and tracing paper, all measure approximately 40.0 x 40.0 cm.

Inscription:

inscribed - Un prospetto (graphite, on laid down paper border, lower right of left panel, below elevation of front facade, artist's hand) (Plan is extensively labelled in black ink, some graphite under labelling) (Section line `A-B'inscribed in red ink, lower centre to upper centre of plan. The residual marks of an erased section line are found approximately one inch to the right of the above line), 60 (graphite, with an architectural cut, graphite, to the left of it, centre left of middle panel), 58 (inscribed within a circle in graphite, lower right, verso, middle panel, unknown hand), a (inscribed in red felt pen, lower left verso, middle panel; immediately to the left is the residual adhesive of the red stickers, see above), 53A (graphite, lower right verso, middle panel, unknown hand), 59 (inscribed within a circle in graphite upper right verso, right panel, unknown hand), 69-68-70 (inscribed in graphite, lower right verso, middle panel, unknown hand), 46b (The `4' and `6'are commercially bought red st

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

hotel

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Folder Number:

Size III - 191

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