Library interiors in Rosersberg Palace, Sweden (watercolours c. 1797)
Library designs by Erik Palmstedt (Swedish, 1741-1803)
Proposal for a Neoclassical library, by Axel Nyström (Swedish, 1793–1868)
Proposal for a Neclassical library, by Carl Fredrik Sundvall (Swedish, 1754-1831)
Design for a Neoclassical library, by Erik Palmstedt (Swedish, 1741-1803)
Alexandre Serebriakoff, watercolours of Château de Groussay (France). Serebriakoff (1907-1995) was a Ukrainian-born watercolour artist who lived and worked most of his life in France. He developed contacts with French and English high society, and made watercolour albums depicting the richly furnished interiors of French chateaux and London flats, so-called Zimmerbilden or portraits d'intérieur. It was once a popular and charming genre of art, of which older examples are often of interest for the cultural historian, but has faded from the mainstream. Serebriakoff was one of the last masters of the genre.
Pics from here, which also provides an interesting read.
The Hermitage of Saint Gerbold in Normandy, France. Built as a church in the Middle Ages, it was transformed into a hermit's dwelling - a hermitage in the true sense of the word - in the 17th century. The last hermit died in 1840.
One last bookplate which is so charming I have to provide some comments (See the other ones here, here and here.)
This is the bookplate (or ex libris) of German politician, lawyer and Enlightenment figure Johann Daniel von Olenschlager (1711-1778), It depicts an ideal of a library which is made clear already in the Latin motto inscribed in the elaborate, Rococo frame, which translated into something like “I wish to be both useful and to be of enjoyment.”
The depicted library room is an open loggia covered with a roomy vault. The side walls are entirely covered by bookshelves, giving that pleasant, comfortable impression of being lost in a sea of reading material. The floor, we may imagine, is a cool stone floor - because at the rear end, the loggia opens generously to a gorgeous Baroque garden. The shadows falling from the pillars to the left, the fountain trickling and the garland having from the roof to frame the entrance all give away a vague feeling of an eternal summer day. Pruned trees, a gravel path and a balustraded stair emanate an atmosphere of peace and order. Two figures move towards us from the garden; we can almost hear the bright voices of our friends approaching. In a few moments they will be with us, laughingly teasing us to finally drop our books and get out into the sunshine with them. I wouldn’t mind at all.
House in Tournai, Belgium. Architect: Georges De Poore, 1903
The Church of Saint Quentin, Tournai (Belgium).
It contains two Late Gothic wooden sculptures depicting the Annunciation from 1428, made by Jean Delemer and painted by Robert Campin, "the earliest example of the Late Gothic style that was to dominate the sculpture of the Netherlands and most of Europe for the following century."’
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M. Bouchet, Proposal for a central railway station in Paris. 1903-04.
Source: archive.org
Helgo Zettervall, Project for a library of 100.000 volumes (1860).
Source: archive.org
Carl Bergsten, Proposal for a town hall in Östersund, Sweden, 1907 (not built).
Maison Egyptienne, Strasbourg (France). Architect Francois/Franz Scheyder, 1905-07.
Source: Flickr / arnimschulz
Leopold Bauer, proposal for a municipal building, c. 1901