Personnes et institutions:

Charles Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Louis Fuchs (landscape architect)
Alphonse Hubert François Balat (architect)
Charles Servais (architect)

Titre:

Portfolio of drawings of European zoos in Antwerp, Brussels, Marseille, and Amsterdam

Date:

ca. 1862, printed ca. 1862

Description:

- This portfolio contains record drawings - mostly line drawings and sketches, some coloured with wash - of four European zoological gardens: Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam and Marseille. The drawings include plans, sections, elevations of the animal cages, aviaries and buildings, as well as pictorial drawings of the facilities and general plans of the zoological gardens at Antwerp and Amsterdam. The zoological garden at Antwerp is depicted in the most detail, notably including drawings of the Palais égyptien designed by Charles Servais. Also included are two sheets of notes illustrated with sketches, concerning the zoological garden at Marseille.

Classification:
dessins
documents textuels
oeuvres d'art

Quantité / Type d’objet:
1 portfolio(s)

Étape et objectif:

as-built drawings
measured drawings
record drawings
preparatory drawings
dessins de détail
book illustrations

Technique et médium:

Manuscripts in pen and brown ink on graph paper

Dimensions:

portfolio: 52 x 32,6 x 1 cm sheet (smallest): 2,7 x 2 cm sheet (largest): 49,4 x 63,8 cm secondary support (smallest): 44,4 x 29,9 cm secondary support (largest): 49 x 32,2 cm

Numéro de référence:

DR1974:0002:018:001-027

Type de dessins:

line drawings
freehand drawings
sketches
travel sketches
tracings

Type de document:

notes
dummy (printed matter)

Méthode de projection:

perspective drawings
dessins axonométriques
pictorial drawings
scale drawings
plans (drawings)
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point de vue:

general views
partial views
exterior views

Caractéristiques matérielles et contraintes techniques:

- The drawings are housed in two portfolios. The outer one is made of album boards covered with marbled paper, has a leather spine and corners, and is fastened with cloth ties. The inner portfolio is made of green cardboard printed with a transfer lithograph (DR1974:0002:018:001). Many of the drawings are drawn directly on the back of transfer lithographs of unrelated subject matter by Charles Rohault de Fleury, many of which have other drawings locally mounted on them. An equal number of drawings are drawn on tracing or wove paper, locally mounted or laid down on the back of reused transfer lithographs. Several drawings are on unbound folded tracing paper. The manuscripts are on graph paper.

Inscriptions:

dated - on DR1974:0002:018:002 - DR1974:0002:018:004, DR1974:0002:018:007, DR1974:0002:018:010, DR1974:0002:011, DR1974:0002:018:014, and DR1974:0002:018:015, by an unknown hand, in graphite or pen and brown ink, in various locations: with dates inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:018:001, on the original, by an unknown hand, c.: "Casin [?] Principal du Jardin Aoologique d'Anvers"; and l.c.: "NOTES / SUR LES / JARDINS / ZOOLOGIQUES / 1862" inscribed and numbered - on most of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in graphite or pen and black or brown ink, in various locations: with titles and/or with dimensions and building parts inscribed - on DR1974:0002:018:009 and DR1974:0002:018:023, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, throughout: with the names of the buildings numbered - on most of the drawings, by an unknown hand, in graphite or pen and black ink, u.r.: with sheet numbers inscribed and numbered - on DR1974:0002:018:025, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, l. and r.: with a key to the buildings; and throughout: with numbers

Sujet:

architecture
architecture de paysage

Termes descriptifs:

fences
aviaries
cages
bars (building materials)

Mention de crédit:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal