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

Sections and elevations for the cornice of the great tower for 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: 97.9 x 65.0 cm

DR1988:0433:045

• line drawing

• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

- The edges of the sheet are dirty and have small losses and tears, notably along the r. edge. There is also a small loss at the l.l. Some of the losses have been repaired: the l.r. corner was repaired with a piece of paper glued at the verso.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "Fonthill, No. / Cornice of Great Tower."; c.l.: "Section,"; b.: "Section and Elevation,"; and l.r.: "6 Stratton Street, / October, 1849."

• architecture

• cornice