Rendered elevation and plans for a country house in a French revival style

People:

Charles Thomine (architect)
Charles Thomine (draughtsman)

Title:

Rendered elevation and plans for a country house in a French revival style

Date:

6 January 1860

Description:

- These plans and elevation show a brick and stone house with a few French revival style motifs such as the quoining and pediment over the central pavilion. The rendering of the front elevation shows it set in a forested landscape.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

presentation drawing (proposal)

Technique and media:

Pen and black and red ink over graphite, and watercolour

Dimensions:

sheet: 65.2 x 48.1 cm

Reference number:

DR1987:0306

Drawing Type:

finished drawings
rendering

Method of Projection:

pictorial drawing
plans (drawings)
elevation (drawing)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Remains of an album guard are visible on the verso of an old fold at the c. of the sheet.

Inscription:

inscribed, dated, and signed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "Dressé par l'Architecte, soussigné / Paris le 6 Janvier 1860. / CThomine"; c.l.: "Plan du Rez-de-Chausée"; c.r.: "Plan du 1er Etage."; l.c.: "Plan des Caves."; and throughout the b. half of the sheet: with measurements and names of rooms stamped - l.l.: "C.THOMINE / ARCHITECTE" [within an oval] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and red ink, u.r.: "10" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, l.r.: "50 - 400 [illeg. word]"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

country house
Second Empire
eclecticism

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

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