• Charles de Wailly (draughtsman)
• Charles de Wailly (architect)

Projet pour la transformation du Panthéon en pyramide : Coupe / Project for the transformation of the Panthéon into a pyramid : Section

ca. 1797

- The scale, section cuts and site lines on DR1995:0060 also refer to DR1995:0061.

• measured drawing
• presentation drawing (proposal)

Plume et encre, lavis d'encre et trace de crayon graphite sur papier, monté sur carton pen and ink, ink wash with traces of graphite on paper, mounted on board

sheet (irreg.): 24.4 x 19.8 cm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.) secondary support: 36 x 77 cm (14 3/16 x 30 5/16 in.)

DR1995:0061

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

• cross sections

• interior views

- The drawing is framed by two pen and brown ink borders. Drawings DR1995:0059, DR1995:0060 and DR1995:0061 are mounted on the same board. All three drawings are framed with pen and brown ink borders. A grey ink [?] wash was applied on the mount from the last border to the outside edges.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and red ink, l.l. to l.c.: "COUPE PRISE SUR LA LIGNE AB. / L'on a representé [sic] dans cette Coupe des Rayons / ponchiés [sic] en rouge qui annoncent les objets / que l'oeil embrasse placé a [sic] l'extremité [sic] iterieure [sic] / du Monumet [sic] au point D."; l.c. to l.r.: "COUPE PRISE SUR LA LIGNE BC. [sic] du Plan. / La Partie de la Coupe pointillée en rouge .E. [sic] indique l'addition projettée [sic] / òu [sic] l'on auroit la possibilité d'etablir [sic] 100. [sic] ephigies [sic] dans les espaces - / que l'augmentation procureroit. / La Partie marqué [sic] F. [sic] represente [sic] la Coupe du Dome [sic] actuel."; u.c.: "F"; and l.r.: "E".

Paris; France;

• architecture

• domes
• columns (architectural elements)
• monument
• pyramid (tomb)
• column figures