Section looking towards central staircase for a cruciform-plan hotel

People:

Virgilio Marchi (role unspecified)

Title:

Section looking towards central staircase for a cruciform-plan hotel

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, blue, orange, and red gouache highlights over graphite

Dimensions:

Sheet: 38.9 x 51.6 cm

Reference number:

DR1986:0488

Method of Projection:

section

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

One 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, ink and graphite on paper and tracing paper, all measure approximately 40.0 x 40.0 cm.

Inscription:

inscribed - portar?/m/(1) (erased graphite inscription, lower centre, contemporary hand),60 (graphite with an architectural `cut' graphic to the left of it, centre left), 1/2 (graphite, lower right, contemporary hand), 1 (inscribed within parenthesis, in graphite, centre right, contemporary hand), (illegible inscription due to cropping of sheet, red ink, lower right, contemporary hand), (illegible erased inscription below bar scale), FONDO MARCH (stamped in blue ink, within a rectangular blue ink border, lower right verso), 3 (blue ballpoint ink, lower right verso, unknown hand), 71 (inscribed in with circle, graphite, lower left verso, unknown hand), 530 (graphite with a upper case graphite `A' inscribed over the zero, lower left verso), 61 (inscribed within circle, graphite, lower left verso), 53 (inscribed on a circular red sticker in pen and then crossed out with graphite, lower left verso), Bar scale inscribed from 0 to 30 metres (red ink, l.r.)

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

hotel

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

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