• Nicholas Hawksmoor (draughtsman)
• Nicholas Hawksmoor (designer)

Design and manuscript for Ockham Park, Surrey

1729-1730

- Folio 10 from an album of nineteen folios of drawings and manuscript sheets devoted to proposed alterations for the Jacobean house at Ockham Park, see 'The First Five Years...', p. 54, pl. 24.

Drawings include pen and black ink, some with grey wash and some with watercolour on laid paper

sheets (range): 24,6 to 37,5 x 20,2 to 49 cm

DR1964:0006:001-031

inscribed - on DR1964:0006:013, by the draughtsman, in black ink, u.c.: "The plan of the First floor / containing the Hall and Parlors" and with dimensions and various labels identifying rooms and materials inscribed - on DR1964:0006:018, by the draughtsman, in black ink, u.l.: "AA The 2 pilasters made with Bricks and Stucco'd over / BB Two Stone Pillars of Portland, or freestone / N Bene. The Inside of ye / Portico must be all Stucco, / or ought to be Soe. [sic] / This will take away none of ye Light, (it is much the Same at Moor Parke/and will make Front appear / very beautifull [sic] and convenient. / CC. This Small piece of wall Should Have / been taken down but now it's too' / late (I am affrayd) [sic] to doe [sic] it.; u.r.: "The Architrave freez [sic] and Cornice may / be made of Brick, Timber, and Stucco / and ye Covering may be Lead of Blow Slates / This is ye cheapest thing that can be done.; and b.: "The Portico" numbered and inscribed - on DR1964:0006:019, by the draughtsman, in black ink, u.r.: "N°.4"; and c.l. to c.r.: "The Door into the Hall / with a window on each Side of it / looking into ye fountain-Court. / This can be done with nothing but Stone / and Should be done before the Wainscot / is set up." and with dimensions and labels numbered and inscribed - on DR1964:0006:020, by the draughtsman, in black ink, t.: "The End of the Hall next Brick-Stair"; and u.r.: "N.5"

Contains:

• DR1964:0006:019, Door into the Hall, Ockham Park, 1729