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

Plan for the basement of the stable offices 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 ink over graphite, with watercolour

secondary support: 53.9 x 74.7 cm sheet: 53.9 x 74.3 cm

DR1988:0433:017

• line drawing
• finished drawing

• plan (drawing)

- The edges of the sheet are dirty, and there is a small fold in the l.l. corner. The r. edge of the canvas is frayed.

inscribed, numbered, and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "Fonthill No. 17, / Plan of Basement of Stable Offices etc."; l.r.: "6 Stratton Street, / October 1849."; and throughout: with measurements, names of rooms, and letters identifying section cuts

• architecture

• basement