• Charles Thomine (draughtsman)
• Charles Thomine (architect)

Rendering and plans for an eclectic chalet-style house with eastern influences

ca. 1860

- These plans and rendering show a chalet-style house with middle- and far-eastern influences, including ogee horseshoe arches and an onion dome. Although the inscribed scale mentions an "elevation", the draughtsman was probably referring to the pictorial drawing at the top of the sheet above the three plans. This rendering includes several groups of figures in middle eastern costume in the foreground, some of whom are riding animals -- horses, a camel, and an elephant. The background, includes two walled structures with minaret-like spires.

• dessin de présentation

Pen and black and red ink over graphite, and watercolour with gouache

secondary support: 100.4 x 71.2 cm sheet: 80.3 x 52.3 cm

DR1987:0304

• line drawings
• rendering

• pictorial drawing
• plans (drawings)

- The sheet has old horizontal and vertical folds. The c. of the secondary support has been cut out so that both sides of the sheet are visible; however, the verso of the sheet is backed with thin paper so that the sheet is no longer translucent.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, c.l.: "Plan du Rez-de-Chaussée."; c.r.: "Plan du Premier [Etage]"; l.r.: "Plan du Sous-Sol."; and throughout the b. half of the sheet: with measurements and names of rooms numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, l.r.: "30-25"

• architecture

• house
• chalet
• eclecticism
• exoticism