Album of drawings, prints, and manuscripts of theatres and of French projects for buildings, monuments and temporary structures, and drawings and prints by Hubert and Charles Rohault de Fleury for theatres and miscellaneous projects
drawings executed ca. 1790-1868, manuscripts 1802-1868, printed 1717-1868
- This album contains original designs - mostly preliminary drawings - by Charles and possibly Hubert Rohault de Fleury for theatres and miscellaneous projects, record drawings and prints of French, and perhaps Italian, theatres, and prints for a diverse collection of other French subjects. Drawings and prints for theatres include: traced plans, perhaps of Italian theatres; preliminary plans for theatres designed by Charles Rohault de Fleury; a plan of Théâtre de variétés, Paris, signed by the architect, Jacques Cellérier; prints of Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris, designed by Charles de Wailly and Marie-Joseph Peyre; a print of Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, designed by Nicolas Lenoir; a proposal for an opera house, Paris, by Hector Horeau with a plan and perspective; and an engraving of the inscription for the first stone of the Grand-Théâtre, Lyon, designed by Antoine-Marie Chenavard and Jean Pollet. The remaining prints in the album date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include: a competition entry by Louis-Pierre Baltard for a monument at Bordeaux dedicated to the triumphs of the Republican army and to peace; a stable for the Czarina commissioned by Peter I and designed by François Bruant; decorations by Victor Louis for the "fêtes de paix" of 1763 and the inauguration of an equestrian statue of Louis XV for the Théâtre italien dedicated to the Marquis de Marigny; a funerary temple by Louis-Jean Desprez dedicated to Voltaire; a stable with two manèges by Jean François de Neufforge; a competition entry for an obelisk for Pont-Neuf, Paris, by Thomas Pierre Baraguay; a plan and two engravings of the Cirque for the Confédération générale, 14 July 1790, on the Champ-de-Mars; an advertising flyer for Louis Ambroise Dubut's book, "Architecture civile: maison de ville et de campagne"; and a prospectus and print of the Néothermes, rue de la Victoire, Paris, designed by Jean Charles Bringol. Three design drawings are for two projects by Charles Rohault de Fleury - an iron arcade for boulevard du Temple, Paris, and a bathroom or public bath (DR1974:0002:010:013, DR1974:0002:010:014 and DR1974:0002:010:044). A finished drawing for entrance gates (DR1974:0002:010:047) and unidentified sketches and notes (DR1974:0002:010:019 - DR1974:0002:010:022) are by either Hubert or Charles Rohault de Fleury.
Manuscripts include several letterpress printing with lithographs, engravings and graphite, all on wove or laid paper
album: 61 x 46 x 2,3 cm plate marks (range): 19,5 to 63 x 15,3 to 75,7 cm sheets (range): 6 x 65 to 83,2 cm pages (range): 30,2 to 44,2 x 60 to 44,3 cm
DR1974:0002:010:001-048
- This album is bound between album boards covered with marbled paper and a blue cloth spine stamped in gold with the album title and several decorative bands. Most of the drawings, prints and documents are inserted into the album on guards. Some of the drawings are either bound directly into the album, or locally mounted on album pages. Two groups of drawings, DR1974:0002:010:008 - DR1974:0002:010:012 and DR1974:0002:010:039 DR1974:0002:010:041, are locally mounted on two album pages. Several drawings and one manuscript are unbound.
signed and inscribed - on most of the prints, by the printmaker, in the plate below the image, in various locations: with the names of the printermaker(s), the draughtsman and/or the architect; and in the plate on, above or below the image, usually b. or t.: with titles signed and inscribed - on DR1974:0002:010:007, by the author, in pen and brown ink, on the print, l.r.: "a Monsieur Rohault de Fleury / l'auteur HHoreau" signed - on DR1974:0002:010:003, by the architect, in pen and blue ink, l.l.: "Cellérier" signed, dated and inscribed - on DR1974:0002:010:044, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "Ch. Rohault arch. 1831"; t. "Salle de Bains"; and b.: "Rue Culture [?] St. Catherine no. 18" dated - on some of the prints, by the printmaker, in the plate below or on the image, various locations: with dates inscribed and dated - on DR1974:002:010:013 and DR1974:002:010:014, by an unknown hand(s), on the transfer lithograph, in graphite, l.l.: "Charles"; and in pen and brown ink, b.: "Boulevard du temple / 4Xbre 1840" inscribed - on most of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, in various locations, usually b. or t.: with titles inscribed - on a few of the prints, by the engraver or etcher, in the plate below the image, l.r. or b.: with information concerning the sale of the print inscribed and numbered - on DR1974:0002:010:032 and DR1974:0002:010:033, by the engraver, in the plate on the image, in various locations: with keys to building components; and throughout: with letters inscribed - on DR1974:0002:010:034, by the printmaker, in the plate below the image, b.: with a tribute to Voltaire dated, inscribed and numbered - on DR1974:0002:010:009, by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, c.r.: with title, date, key to building components and notes; and throughout: with letters inscribed - on DR1974:0002:010:008, DR1974:0002:010:026 and DR1974:0002:010:027, by the engraver, in the plate on the image, throughout: with building components inscribed - on DR1974:0002:010:003, by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, throughout: with building components and street names
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