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

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

ca. 1862, printed ca. 1862

- 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.

• as-built drawings
• measured drawings
• record drawings
• preparatory drawings
• detail drawings
• book illustrations

Manuscripts in pen and brown ink on graph paper

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

DR1974:0002:018:001-027

• line drawings
• freehand drawings
• sketches
• travel sketches
• tracings

• notes
• dummy (printed matter)

• perspective drawings
• axonometric drawings
• pictorial drawings
• scale drawings
• plans (drawings)
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

• general views
• partial views
• exterior views

- 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.

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

• architecture
• landscape architecture

• fences
• aviaries
• cages
• bars (building materials)

Contains:

• DR1974:0002:018:001, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Folder printed with perspective of the principal building, and perspective, half elevation, half plan, and detail of the eagle aviary, printed 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:002, Zoological garden, Marseille: Notes and sketches concerning the animal cages, 10 May 1859
• DR1974:0002:018:003, Zoological garden, Marseille: Notes and a sketch concerning the animal cages, 10 May 1859
• DR1974:0002:018:005, Zoological garden, Brussels: Elevations, plans, and sections of the small carnivore cage and an aviary, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:007, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Perspective of the principal building, 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:008, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Plan, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:009, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Plan, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:010, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Interior sketch perspective, elevation, section and plan of the antelope cage, 11 October [?] 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:015, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Elevation, plan, section, and detail of a door of the ostrich aviary, 21 September [?] 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:020, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Elevations, axonometric drawings, and details of fences, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:021, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Plan and elevation of an aviary, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:022, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Elevation, plan, and section of the flamingo aviary, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:023, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Plan, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:024, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Elevation, section and plan of the Palais égyptien, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:025, Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam: Plan, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:004:001-002, Zoological garden, Brussels: Perspective, perspective view of a bracket, cross section, and plan of the ostrich aviary, 23 September [?] 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:006:001-003, Zoological garden, Brussels: Sketch perspective and plan of an aviary and a sketch of the tiger cage, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:011:001-003, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Perspective, half elevation, half plan, and detail of the eagle aviary, 16 September 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:012:001-007, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Elevation, section, and plan of the small carnivores cage and perspective view and details of the garden buildings, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:013:001-002, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Perspective view, plan, and detail of the bear cage; Zoological garden, Brussels: Elevation of the bear cage, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:014:001-003, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Sketch and plan of the wolf cage and perspective sketch of an aviary garden, 16 September [?] 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:016:001-003, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Elevation, section, and plan of the Palais égyptien, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:017:001-003, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Plan, section and sketch detail of an aviary; Zoological gardens, Marseille: Plan, elevation, section, and details of the tiger, rhinoceros, and bear cages, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:018:001-005, Zoological garden, Antwerp: Elevations of a monkey pole, a parrot perch, elevation and detail of a fence, and plan, section and elevation of an aviary, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:019:001-006, Zoological garden, Antwerp [?]: Elevations, perspective sketch, section, plan, and details of the flamingo aviary, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:026:001-009, Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam: Plan, section, and details of the monkey house, and plan, section and details of the giraffe cage, ca. 1862
• DR1974:0002:018:027:001-007, Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam: Plans, elevation, section, and axonometric drawing of an aviary, and elevation of a fence, ca. 1862