Plan for the principal floor for Fonthill House

People:

Unknown, England, mid 19th century (draughtsman)
William Burn (architect)

Title:

Plan for the principal floor for Fonthill House

Date:

October 1849

Description:

- One of a group of working drawings for William Burn's October 1849 project for Fonthill House, Wiltshire, a country house designed in the Jacobethan style. This group represents only one of the projects that Burn proposed for Fonthill House; the final project, executed in 1856, was much smaller (Walker, 31, illustrated in Hitchcock, vol. 2, fig. VIII 31). Drawings include plans, elevations, and sections, as well as full-scale drawings of masonry details. Approximately half of the drawings are part of a numbered series from one to twenty-two, while the other drawings, mostly masonry details, were not numbered. These latter drawings are not as carefully finished, and a few are incomplete.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

working drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and black and red ink with watercolour, over graphite

Dimensions:

secondary support: 65.4 x 97.2 cm sheet: 65.4 x 97.1 cm

Reference number:

DR1988:0433:004

Drawing Type:

line drawing
pentimenti

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The edges of the sheet are stained and frayed, particularly at the l.l., where the sheet is wrinkled and has come unglued from the secondary support. All of the corners have pinholes.

Inscription:

inscribed, numbered, and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "Fonthill No. 4, / Plan of Principal Floor"; l.r.: "6 Stratton Street, / October 1849."; and throughout: with measurements, names of rooms, and letters identifying section cuts

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

bedroom
dining rooms
library (room)
chapel
dressing room
drawing room
store-rooms

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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