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Les Travaux Publics de la France. Tome 5. Phares et Balises
People:
  • Édouard Baldus (photographer)
  • Berthaud (photographer)
  • Auguste-Hippolyte Collard (photographer)
  • Louis-Alphonse Davanne (photographer)
  • J. Duclos (photographer)
  • Emile Letellier (photographer)
  • Alphonse Terpereau (photographer)
  • Adolphe Terris (photographer)
  • T. Cognacq (photographer)
  • Cabibel (photographer)
  • Eugène Delon (photographer)
  • Muzet Joguet (photographer)
  • Edmond De Labrador (photographer)
  • Alfred Magny (photographer)
  • M. Pacault (photographer)
  • Prompt (photographer)
  • Provost (photographer)
  • Romanowski (photographer)
  • Sarrault (photographer)
Title:

Les Travaux Publics de la France. Tome 5. Phares et Balises

Date:

between 1876-1883

Description:

Fifth of a series of five illustrated volumes, this album contains mounted plates, engravings and maps, and depicts lighthouses in France.
Album (Tome 5) is titled as follows:
Les Travaux Publics de la France. Route et ponts - chemins de fer - rivières et canaux/ ports de mer - phares et balises/ par/ MM. F. Lucas et V. Fournié - Ed. Collignon - H. de Lagrené/ Voisin Bey - E. Allard/ ouvrage publié sous les auspices/ du Ministère des Travaux Publics et sous la direction de/ M. Léonce Reynaud/ Inspecteur général des Ponts et Chaussées/ Tome Cinquième: Phares et Balises/ par/E. Allard/ Ingénieur en Chef des Ponts et Chaussées/ avec 50 planches phototypées, 200 gravures et une carte en chromolithographie/ Paris/ J. Rothschild, Éditeur 13 rue des Saints-Pères, 13 M DCCC LXXXIII and the album is divided as follows:
Phares et Balises
Introduction
Première partie
Historique des phares
- Chapitre premier. Phares de l'Antiquité
- Chapitre II. Phares de l'époque moderne

Deuxième partie
Description des phares et balises
- Chapitre premier. Tours et édifices des phares
- Chapitre II. Appareils d'éclairage
- Chapitre III. Balisage
- Chapitre IV. Renseignements statistiques
- Explication des planches
- Table des matières

The plates are listed as follows:
I Phare de Dunkerque
II Phare de Calais
III Phare du Cap Gris-Nez
IV Phares de la Canche
V Phare de L'Ailly
VI Phares de la Hève
VII Salle des machines des phares électriques de Lattève
VIII Phare de Honfleur
IX Phare de Trouville
X Phare de Barfleur
XI Phare du Grand-Jardin
XII Phare du Cap Fréhel
XIII Phare des Roches-Douvres
XIV Phare du Pan de Bréhat
XV Phare des Héaux de Bréhat
XVI Phare de La Croix
XVII Phare de La Corne
XVIII Phare de Ploumanac'h
XIX Phare des Triagoz
XX Phare de l'Ile Louët
XXI Phare de l'Ile Vierge
XXII Phare du Stiff
XXIII Phare de Créac'h, Ile d'Ouessant
XXIV Phare de Kermorvan
XXV Phare de la Pointe St-Mathieu
XXVI Phare du Petit-Minou
XXVII Phare de Portzic
XXVIII Feux de Port à Brest
XXIX Phare de l'Ile de Sein
XXX Feu de la Falaise du Raz de Sein
XXXI Phare de Penmarc'h
XXXII Feux de port de Douélan
XXXIII Phare des Baleines
XXXIV Phare de La Rochelle et Ponton de feu flottant
XXXV Phare de Chassiron
XXXVI Phare de la Palmyre
XXXVII Phare de St-Pierre de Royan
XXXVIII Phare du Chay, à Royan
XXXIX Phare de St-Georges
XLII Phare de Richard
XLIII et XVIV Phares des Dunes de Hourtin
XLV Phare d'Arcachon
XLVI Phare de St-Jean-de-Luz
XLVII Phare de Cette
XLVIII Phares de l'entrée du Grau d'Aigues-Mortes
XVIX Phare de l'Espiguette
L Bec de lampe à cinq mèches

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)
Technique and media:

Collotype prints from albumen silver prints, engravings, chromolithograph map

Dimensions:

album: 56,2 x 41,5 x 5,1 cm comps. (min.): 19,5 x 33,4 cm comps. (max.): 33,7 x 24,6 cm secondary supports: 54,4 x 38,5 cm

Reference number:

PH1978:0040.05

Drawing Type:
  • sections
Point of View:
  • exterior views
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Contemporary binding consists of dark green leather-covered spine and corners, dark green (different) leather-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine and marbled endpapers.

Inscription:

imprinted

Location:

France

Subject:
  • engineering
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • ruins
  • trees
  • people
  • stairs
  • doors
  • windows
  • railings
  • city
  • shutters
  • stone walls
  • towers (building divisions)
  • path
  • pillars
  • buildings
  • lamps (light devices)
  • utility poles
  • signs
  • fences
  • church
  • brick buildings
  • towers (single built works)
  • retaining walls
  • elevation (building division)
  • machinery
  • bays
  • boats
  • field
  • piers (marine landings)
  • lighthouses
  • sea-shores
  • ports
  • rocks
  • seas
  • sailboats
  • windmills
  • gulfs
  • maps
  • dunes
  • beacon
  • arch bridge
  • weathervane
  • masts
  • chimneys
  • grass (plant)
  • fortified building
  • medal
  • plan (drawing)
  • oars
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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