Alternative designs for the main garden terrace at Kinmel Park, Denbighshire

People:

William Eden Nesfield (architect)
William Eden Nesfield (draughtsman)
Hugh Robert Hughes (client)

Title:

Alternative designs for the main garden terrace at Kinmel Park, Denbighshire

Date:

1878

Description:

- This plan shows a design, with pentimenti, for the proposed parterre at the rear of Kinmel Park house.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and black ink with watercolour washes over graphite and with pen and red ink over graphite and graphite pentimenti

Dimensions:

sheet: 76.2 x 53.4 cm

Reference number:

DR1983:0564

Method of Projection:

plan (drawing)

Inscription:

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, throughout: with labels and dimensions; u.l.: with title; l.r.: "W Eden Nesfield [signature] / 30 Argyll St. London W."; and in graphite, throughout: with labels, dimensions, annotations, and calculations; u.l.: "No 444 & 456 & 464 ? & now, 479 - / In ink & colour No 481 - / [at top] New C[illeg.] No 478" inscribed - by the client ? in graphite, c.l.: "N.B. The Yellow lines shew [sic] / plan of Fountains & parterre / as settled & sent to Reed Jan 23/78 - / E[?] E[?] H. [signature]" [upside down]

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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