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

Sections for Fonthill House on lines RS and TV 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.

• dessins d'exécution

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

secondary support: 65.5 x 97.0 cm sheet: 65.5 x 97.0 cm

DR1988:0433:016

• line drawing
• finished drawing

• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

- The edges of the sheet are stained, torn, and frayed, particularly along the b. The l.l. corner is folded, and the u.l. corner has a pinhole.

inscribed, numbered, and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "Fonthill No. 16, / Sections on lines "RS" and TV."; c.: "Section on line "RS," showing West Front of Stable Offices, East side of Central Court, etc."; b.: "Section on line "TV." showing South side of Stable Court, North front of Kitchen Offices, etc."; and l.r.: "6 Stratton Street, / October, 1849."

• architecture

• courtyards