• Fonds: Fonds de la Fabrique de la Paroisse de Notre-Dame de Montréal, circa 1823 - 1981
•    Série(s): Notre-Dame de Montréal, circa 1823 -24 November 1981
•      Projet: Renovations by Théophile Fahrland, circa 1860

• Théophile Fahrland (draughtsman)
• Théophile Fahrland (architect)
• James O'Donnell (architect)
• Fabrique de Notre Dame (archive creator)

Plan, elevation and section for a bearing wall [?] for Notre-Dame de Montréal for the renovations of the 1860s

contracted 20 September 1862

- The inscribed titles on two drawings by Théophile Fahrland indicate that the subjects are a "tambour" [drum] (AR1996:1001:232) and details for a "tambour" (AR1996:1001:231) for Notre-Dame de Montréal. The subject of these drawings is identified as a "bearing wall [?]", since the definition of a "drum" - a vertical wall, either circular or polygonal in plan, that carries a dome - apparently does not apply in this case (Art and Architecture Thesaurus). Further research is required to determine the subject of these drawings more precisely.

• contract drawings

Pen and black ink with grey watercolour wash ? and graphite

sheet: 42.8 x 73.2 cm

AR1996:1001:232

• line drawings
• mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
• doodle

• plan (drawing)
• section
• elevation (drawing)

• exterior views
• interior views
• plan view

- There are doodles in graphite in various locations of the drawing.

inscribed and signed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, b.: with title; and l.r.: "T Fahrland" [signature] inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, c.: "A" inscribed, dated and signed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, c.r. to u.r.: "Ceci est le plan marqué A auquel est refere dans un certaine marché / entre Pierre Desautels & La Fabrique de Montréal passé devant Me I. Doucen / son coufrére [?], notaires sousignes levingt [sic] septembre mil huit cent soixante deux, / signé des parties et de nous dits notaires ne [underlined] varietur [? underlined]"; "Piérre Dèsautels" [signature]; and with three signatures inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, c.r.: "Eglise Notre Dame / Plan d'un Tambour / [two illeg. words]"

Montréal Île de Montréal Québec Canada

• architecture

• bearing wall
• drum (wall)

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