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

Elevations for a pinnacle and shaft 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

sheet: 52.4 x 72.5 cm

DR1988:0433:033

• line drawing

• elevations (drawings)

- All of the corners have been cut off.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, t.: "Fonthill, No. / Details of Dormer Windows of Main Building."; l.l.: "Elevation of portions of shafts."; l.r.: "Pinnacle. 6 Stratton Street, / October, 1849."; and in various locations: with notes about the form of the diameter of the pinnacle

• architecture

• pinnacle