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

Sections for Fonthill House on lines CD and GH, showing the courtyards

October 1849

- 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.

• working drawing

Pen and black ink over graphite, with watercolour and blue and grey wash

secondary support: 65.7 x 96.8 cm sheet: 65.7 x 96.8 cm

DR1988:0433:014

• line drawing
• finished drawing

• section
• elevation (drawing)

- The edges of the sheet are stained and frayed, particularly along the b. The sheet is wrinkled and has come unglued from the secondary support at the l.l. The u.r. corner has old folds, and one runs down the c. of the sheet. The u.l., l.l., and u.r. corners have pinholes.

inscribed, numbered, and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "Fonthill No. 14, / Sections on lines "CD" and "GH"."; c.: "Section of line "CD", showing West side of Principal Court."; b.: "Section on line "GH", showing South sides of "Coal House Court", "Central Court", "Kitchen Court", and North fronts of Wings of Main Building."; and l.r.: "6 Stratton Street, / October, 1849."

• architecture

• courtyards