• Fonds: Fonds de la Fabrique de la Paroisse de Notre-Dame de Montréal, circa 1823 - 1981
•    Série(s): Notre-Dame de Montréal, circa 1823 -24 November 1981
•      Projet: Renovations by Théophile Fahrland, circa 1860

• Théophile Fahrland (architect)
• Théophile Fahrland (draughtsman)
• James O'Donnell (architect)
• Fabrique de Notre Dame (archive creator)

Sections for a pilaster for a bearing wall [?] for Notre-Dame de Montréal for the renovations of the 1860s

contracted 20 September 1862

- The inscribed titles on two drawings by Théophile Fahrland indicate that the subjects are a "tambour" [drum] (AR1996:1001:232) and details for a "tambour" (AR1996:1001:231) for Notre-Dame de Montréal. The subject of these drawings is identified as a "bearing wall [?]", since the definition of a "drum" - a vertical wall, either circular or polygonal in plan, that carries a dome - apparently does not apply in this case (Art and Architecture Thesaurus). Further research is required to determine the subject of these drawings more precisely.

• contract drawing

Pen and black ink over graphite with light grey and light brown watercolour

sheet: 131.5 x 50.9 cm

AR1996:1001:231

• line drawings
• mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)

• sections (orthographic drawings)

• exterior view
• interior view

- The drawing is executed on two pieces of paper joined together at c. The t. to u.r. part of the drawing has been torn off.

inscribed and signed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.c. and c.: "Traverse."; l.c.: "Sablière."; with title; "Poteau 3" x 6"."; "2 pouces" [sideways]; and "Portes 2 pouc [sic] d'epaisseur"; and l.r.: "T Fahrland" [signature] inscribed, dated and signed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, u.c. to t.: "Ceci est le plan marque B auquel il est referé dans un [sic] certaine marché / entre Pierre Desautels et La Fabrique de Montréal passé devant Me- / I. Doucet & et son cofrére [sic] notaires soussignés, le vingtièmejour [sic] de Septembre mil huit / cent soixante deux, signè des parties et des nous dits notaires / ne varietur [underlined] / Pierre Dèsautels [signature] / [two illeg. signatures] I. Doucette [signature]" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso. b.: "Eglise Notre Dame Plans en grand du tambour / s'apres marche basse [?] [illeg.] [?]tels / AD" [upside down]

Montréal Île de Montréal Québec Canada

• architecture

• bearing wall
• drum (wall)
• pilaster

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