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

Plan for the principal bedroom floor for Fonthill House

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.

• dessins d'exécution

Pen and black and red ink with watercolour, over graphite

secondary support: 65.4 x 97.1 cm sheet: 65.4 x 97.0 cm

DR1988:0433:005

• line drawing
• pentimenti

• plan (drawing)

- 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. The u.l. and u.r. corners have pinholes.

inscribed, numbered, and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "Fonthill, No. 5, / Plan of Principal Bed Room Floor."; l.r.: "6 Stratton Street, / October 1849."; and in various locations: with names of rooms and measurements

• architecture

• bedrooms
• dressing rooms
• boudoir