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Drawing, The Mausoleum for Czar Paul I (1754-1801) in the Park of Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg, Russia: Side Elevation

This is a Drawing. It was architect: Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas) and drafted by Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas). It is dated 1805 and we acquired it in 1998. Its medium is pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, green and brown watercolor, trace of black chalk on cream laid paper, ruled borders in pen and black ink. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Margery and Edgar Masinter and from Drawings and Prints Council, Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, and Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Funds.

Its dimensions are

24.8 x 38.4 cm (9 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.)

It is signed

In gray ink, lower left: T. de Thomon

It is inscribed

Inscribed in gray black ink, upper center: Facade Lateralle du Monument Sepulrale pris sur la ligne E: F:; at lower center, two scales (one in gray/black, one in brown ink - both indicating Russsian measurements); at lower left in brown ink, 12:3.

Cite this object as

Drawing, The Mausoleum for Czar Paul I (1754-1801) in the Park of Pavlovsk, near Saint Petersburg, Russia: Side Elevation; Architect: Thomas de Thomon (Jean-François Thomas) (French, active in Russia, 1759–1813); pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, green and brown watercolor, trace of black chalk on cream laid paper, ruled borders in pen and black ink; 24.8 x 38.4 cm (9 3/4 x 15 1/8 in.) ; Museum purchase through gift of Margery and Edgar Masinter and from Drawings and Prints Council, Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, and Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Funds; 1998-37-1

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