Parallèle des principaux théatres modernes de l'Europe et des machines théatrales françaises, allemandes et anglaises
A nineteenth-century French comparative study of major European theatres and stage machinery, produced by Joseph de Filippi and Clément Contant and published by Lévy in Paris in 1860. Its pictures are measured floor plans of theatre buildings, with stalls, stage areas, staircases and corridors drawn in thin black and grey lines on white paper, and a designer could take from them the clear architectural layout of a period auditorium and its backstage spaces.
