Plan for a pavilion and a garden to be built and laid out on the "Bastion des Capucins" at Perpignan

People:

Unknown, France, 18th century (architect)
Unknown, France, 18th century (draughtsman)
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (military engineer)

Title:

Plan for a pavilion and a garden to be built and laid out on the "Bastion des Capucins" at Perpignan

Date:

ca. 1750

Description:

- Ce plan présente une proposition d'aménagement d'un jardin pour le bastion des Capucins à Perpignan. Le bastion est situé sur cette partie des remparts qu'on appelle Ville Neuve, entre la rivière Têt et la rivière Basse. Son nom réfère au couvent des Capucins qui se trouvait à l'extérieur de l'enceinte, à l'ombre de la Ville Neuve, et qui fut démoli au commencement de la Révolution française.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

presentation drawing (proposal)

Technique and media:

Pen and black and red ink with watercolours over graphite

Dimensions:

sheet: 95.2 x 68.1 cm

Reference number:

DR1979:0039

Drawing Type:

rendering

Method of Projection:

plan oblique drawing
plan (drawing)

Inscription:

inscribed - by draughtsman? in pen and black ink, t., with title; several parts of the plan labelled with specific identifications such as "grande entree", and "sallon de bal" inscribed - by a later hand? in pen and brown ink, on verso, c.l.: "Projet d'embellissemen [sic]"; in graphite: "16"

Subject:

landscape architecture
engineering
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fountains
terraces
pavilion
basins
boskets

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

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