• Unknown, England, late 18th century - early 19th century (draughtsman)
• Augustus Pugin (draughtsman)
• Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (draughtsman)

Proportional study of the orders

late 18th - early 19th century

Pen and black ink over graphite

sheet (circular): 28.6 x 28.6 cm (11 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.)

DR1979:0013

• line drawing

• elevations (drawings)

- This circular sheet is quite dirty, with several mended tears, a hole in the centre, and several pinpricks around the edges. The verso of the sheet is visible, because the centre of the secondary support to which it is glued at the edges has been cut out.

inscribed - by the draughtsman ? in pen and black ink, l.c.: "Scales of / Projection with / Intermediates" inscribed - by the draughtsman ? in pen and brown ink, throughout: each pedestal and column is identified, clockwise from t.: "Composite / - Diam. Pedes. 3 1/3 Diam."; "Corinthian / - Diam. Pedes. 2 [illeg.] 1/2 Diam.r"; "Ionic / Diam. Pedes. 2 .. 38 [?] Diam."; "Dorick / Diam. Pedes. 4 2/3. Diam."; "Tuscan / Diameter. Pedestal 1"; "Entab 2 Column 10 -"; "Entab. 1:54, Column 9 1/2 -"; "Entab 1:50. Column 9."; "Entab 3 3/4. Column. 17 1/3 -"; "Entab. 1 3/4. Column Seven" inscribed - by a 20th century hand, in graphite, verso, c.r.: "A.C.W. PUGIN / or his circle" inscribed - by the draughtsman ? in pen and black ink, throughout: with numbers from 1 to 10 alongside each order of architecture

• architecture

• columns (architectural elements)
• entablatures
• pedestals
• Doric order
• Ionic order
• Corinthian order
• Composite order
• Tuscan order