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

Elevation and sections for the window balustrades for the library and Lord Westminster's room, 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.

• pattern drawing
• dessins d'exécution
• dessins de détail

Pen and black ink over graphite with brown wash

sheet: 72.5 x 52.5 cm

DR1988:0433:023

• line drawing

• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevation (drawing)

- The edges of the sheet are dirty and there is a small loss at u.r. corner.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "Fonthill, No. / Details of Balustrade over South projecting Windows of Library and Lord Westminster's Room."; l.r.: "6 Stratton Street. / October, 1849."; and in various locations: with titles of sections and elevation, and with letters identifying section cuts

• architecture

• balustrade