Details for stonework for Fonthill House, possibly sections for jambs

People:

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

Title:

Details for stonework for Fonthill House, possibly sections for jambs

Date:

October 1849 ?

Description:

- These drawings of moulding profiles are tentatively identified as jamb profiles because of similarities to the jamb profile on DR1988:0433:025.
- 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:

pattern drawing
working drawing
detail drawings

Technique and media:

Pen and black ink over graphite, with brown wash

Dimensions:

sheet: 54.9 x 76.0 cm

Reference number:

DR1988:0433:042

Drawing Type:

line drawing

Method of Projection:

sections (orthographic drawings)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The edges are uneven and the t. edge has a few small tears.

Inscription:

uninscribed - object uninscribed

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

mouldings

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

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