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

Sections and elevations for the upper window balconies of the great tower, 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 68.8 cm

DR1988:0433:038

• line drawing

• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

- The l.r. corner is stained and wrinkled.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink and graphite, u.l.: "Fonthill, No. [pen and black ink] / upper window / Details of Balconies of Great Tower." [graphite]; l.r.: "6 Stratton Street,"; and in various locations: with titles of sections and elevations [pen and black ink]

• architecture

• balcony
• balustrade
• cantilever