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

Sections for mouldings for dormer windows, 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: 52.3 x 72.1 cm

DR1988:0433:030

• line drawing

• sections (orthographic drawings)

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "Fonthill, No. / Details of Dormer Windows of Main Building."; c.l.: "Horizontal Section through Jamb."; u.c.: "Mullion"; c.r.: "Vertical Section of Cornice &c: / of circular Pediment."; and l.r.: "6 Stratton Street. / October, 1849."

• architecture

• cornice
• jamb
• mullion