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

Elevations and a section for the east side of the south elevation, and a section for the south wall through the drawing room balcony, Fonthill House

October 1849

- This drawing shows elevations of the south facade, towards the east end of the building, and a section through the wall at the drawing room balcony. The subject was identified by comparison with DR1988:0433:011, an elevation of the south facade.
- This drawing was not completed; it lacks the titles present on other drawings in the group DR1988:0433:001 - DR1988:0433:045. Several elements, such as the chimneys, were drawn in graphite and not completed with pen and ink.
- 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
• dessins de détail

Pen and black and red ink, over graphite

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

DR1988:0433:043

• line drawing

• section
• elevations (drawings)

- The edges of the sheet are dirty, and the l.l. corner has come unglued from the secondary support. Pinholes at u.l., u.r., and l.r. corners.

uninscribed - object uninscribed

• architecture