Sections for Fonthill House on lines LM, NO, and PQ showing the courtyards

People:

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

Title:

Sections for Fonthill House on lines LM, NO, and PQ showing the courtyards

Date:

October 1849

Description:

- Abrasion marks at the t. and c.r. suggest that a finial design was altered and in one case redrawn.
- 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.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

working drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and black ink over graphite with watercolour and blue and grey wash

Dimensions:

secondary support: 53.7 x 74.6 cm sheet: 53.7 x 74.6 cm

Reference number:

DR1988:0433:022

Drawing Type:

line drawing
finished drawing
pentimenti

Method of Projection:

sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The edges of the sheet are dirty and trimmed unevenly. The u.l. and u.r. corners have pinholes, while the l.r. corner has an old fold.

Inscription:

inscribed, numbered, and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.r.: "Fonthill No. 22, / Sections on lines "LM", "NO", "PQ"."; c.: "Section on line "LM", "NO," / showing North side of Kitchen Court, South front of Stable Offices etc."; b.: "Section on line "PQ", / showing East side of Stable Court etc."; and l.r.: "6 Stratton Street, / October, 1849."

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

courtyards
stables

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

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