The National Hall in Zagreb - blueprints of the Eastern Facade, Western Facade and Section North to South


Zagreb probably Bartol Felbinger 1838 - 1839 Paper, ink, watercolours 41.5 x 50.4 cm 41.5 x 56.4 cm 44 x 66.3 cm; Blueprints of a two-storey building with cellars and an attic. The building of a palace in Opaticka street 18 had begun in 1838. In 1846 the owner, Count Karlo Draskovic, had sold the palace to the 'National Hall' Society, which soon thereafter housed the collections of the National Museum, including the library. The funds for buying the palace were raised by a big nation-wide drive, and especially through the efforts of Dragutin Rakovac, who was at that time the secretary of the Husbandry Society, and who was later to become the 'keeper' of the Museum. L. Dobronic, Bartol Felbinger i zagrebacki graditelji njegova doba, Zagreb, 1971, pages 108-109; B. Lucic, O projektu za rekonstrukciju 'Ilirske dvorane' u Zagrebu, Godisnjak zastite spomenika kulture Hrvatske, Zagreb, 1978/1979, No. 4/5, page 117; Hrvatski narodni preporod 1790-1848, (exhibition catalogue), Zagreb, 1985, page 184, catalogue number 782.




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