• Unknown (photographer)
• J.J.P. Oud (architect)

Photograph of a bird's-eye perspective drawing for the reconstruction of the Hofplein (city centre), Rotterdam, Netherlands

1942-1943 or later

• dessin de présentation

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 13.1 x 21.7 cm sheet: 13.5 x 22.1 cm

PH1984:1126

• line drawing
• mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)
• rendering

• perspective drawing

• bird's-eye view

- This photograph is inscribed on the verso throughout with arrows and lines in graphite to indicate cropping.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, on the original, u.l.: "HOFPLEIN - ROTTERDAM / ONTWERP J.J.P. OUD"; and l.r.: "1943" inscribed and dated - by unknown hands, in pen and black ink, on the print, verso, t. to u.r.: "J.J.P. Oud: [with title] / 1942-1943"; and l.l.: "Eigendom van / K. WIEKART / Nachtegaalstraat 88 bis A / Utrecht" numbered and dated - by unknown hands, in red pencil, on the print, verso, u.l.: "060"; in graphite, c.l.: "24 aug. [?]"; and in graphite, l.c.:"179 22/30" [upside down] stamped and inscribed - in purple ink, on the print, verso, c.: "FOTO J. SMIT / BEUKELSWEG 59a / ROTTERDAM W. - TEL. 37413 [underlined] / REPRODUCTIERECHT VOORBEHOUDEN [underlined] / ARCHIEF No. 2" ["2" inscribed by an unknown hand in pen and blue ink]

• architecture
• urbanisme

• architectural drawing

© Estate of JJP Oud / Socan