Plans et détails du monument consacré à la mémoire de l'empereur Alexandre ...
Plates from Auguste de Montferrand's 1836 Paris publication Plans et détails du monument consacré à la mémoire de l'empereur Alexandre, documenting the Alexander Column in St Petersburg through engineering views. The engraved plates show the column's raising, the cranes and scaffolding used to lift it, and the surrounding square and palace facades, giving a designer clear examples of monumental column composition and 19th-century construction scenes.


































