People:

Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (architect)

Title:

Album of design development and presentation drawings for three projects: structures for Parc de Clichy, an "entrepôt de vins" with a "guingette", and a "maison du blanchisseur", France

Date:

ca. 1825

Description:

- This album contains mostly design development and presentation drawings - plans, sections and elevations - for three projects: structures for Parc de Clichy, an "entrepôt de vins" with a "guinguette", and a "maison du blanchisseur". Structures proposed for Parc de Clichy include one - or possibly two - washhouses, a sewer, a reservoir and a manège (riding school). There appears to be two alternate designs for the manège and three for the reservoir. The first reservoir design is a simple building with arched entrances and a small balcony (DR1974:0002:009:020 - DR1974:0002:009:025); the second design is more elaborate, consisting of a rectangular building enclosing the reservoir basin and two square two-storey buildings with Ionic columns and quoins (DR1974:0002:009:031 - DR1974:0002:009:035). The first manège design (DR1974:0002:009:011 - DR1974:0002:009:019) consists of an unornamented rectangular building with a central octagonal space. The final proposal for structures at Parc de Clichy in this album (DR1974:0002:009:036 - DR1974:0002:009:049) incorporates both the reservoir and the second design for the manège, one on each side of rue de Lavoir. The reservoir is virtually identical to the first reservoir design, and the manège complements the reservoir in its exterior appearance. Many of the drawings for structures for Parc de Clichy depict the hydraulic systems. Twenty-three drawings for the "entrepôt de vins" include variant designs for site layout and buildings (probably warehouses) and for the adjacent "guinguette" (open air cafe). Parc de Clichy and the "entrepôt de vins" were perhaps at the same location, as indicated by drawings DR1974:0002:009:011, DR1974:0002:009:069 and DR1974:0002:009:078. An unidentified building on site plans for the "entrepôt de vins" is similar in plan and siting to the first manège design for Parc de Clichy. The relationship of the five variant designs for a "maison du blanchisseur" to the other projects in this album is unclear. All of the buildings in the album were intended to be finished in stone or a combination of stone, brick and/or tiles.

Form:
drawings
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawings
preliminary drawings
presentation drawing (proposal)
mechanical drawings (building systems drawings)

Technique and media:

Manuscripts include graphite on laid paper

Dimensions:

album: 60,8 x 45,5 cm sheet (smallest): 25,2 x 20,9 cm sheet (largest): 56,9 x 89,2 cm

Reference number:

DR1974:0002:009:001-079

Drawing Type:

line drawings
finished drawings
sketches

Method of Projection:

scale drawings
plans (drawings)
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point of View:

general views
partial views
exterior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- This album is bound in album boards covered with marbled paper and a cloth spine stamped in gold with bands and the title. The album is divided into eight sections by sheets of blue wove paper. All the drawings are on laid paper except DR1974:0002:009:010, which is on wove paper. Thirty-seven of the sheets are inserted into the album on guards. The remaining objects, with the exception of two manuscripts, are bound into the album. Manuscripts DR1974:0002:009:001 and DR1974:0002:009:002, are attached to the front flyleaf, and are printed on the verso with invoices.

Inscription:

dated and signed - on DR1974:0002:009:010, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, c.r.: "13 Novembre 1822 / [illeg. signature]" dated - on DR1974:0002:009:011, by an unknown hand, in graphite, l.l.: "1823" dated - on DR1974:0002:009:050, DR1974:0002:009:051, DR1974:0002:009:053, DR1974:0002:009:055, DR1974:0002:009:057, DR1974:0002:009:059, DR1974:0002:009:061 and DR1974:0002:009:069, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.r.: "1825" inscribed and dated - on the front flyleaf, by an unknown hand, in graphite, l.r.: "entraits faits 29 mai 1863" imprinted - on the front pastedown on the bookplate, u.l.: "DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE / DE / ROHAULT DE FLEURY / MANUSCRITS" inscribed - on most of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink or graphite, in various locations: with titles; and on many of the drawings, in pen and black and red ink or graphite, throughout: with dimensions inscribed - on DR1974:0002:009:011, DR1974:0002:009:017, DR1974:0002:009:020 and DR1974:0002:009:036, probably by the draughtsman, in graphite or pen and black ink, throughout: with titles indicating the function of each room inscribed - on DR1974:0002:009:005, DR1974:0002:009:010, DR1974:0002:009:018 and DR1974:0002:009:030, by unknown hand(s), in graphite or pen and black ink, in various locations: with descriptive texts concerning the construction of the structures inscribed - on DR1974:0002:009:035 - DR1974:0002:009:041 and DR1974:0002:009:047 - DR1974:0002:009:049, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.l. or u.r.: "non exécuté" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:009:020, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.r.: "conforme a l'execution [sic]" imprinted and dated - on DR1974:0002:009:001 and DR1974:0002:009:002, verso, t.: "L[?]n Talabot et Cie, Rue de la Fidélité, No. 7, Faub. St. Denis"; and within the invoice form: "26 Juin 1824" [DR1974:0002:009:001] and "2 Juillet 1824" [DR1974:0002:009:002]

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

laundry

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal