Five Designs for a House in the Gothic Style: Plan of the Ground Floor or Principal Story
Date:
1791
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor on pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 23 3/8 x 17 1/4 inches (59.4 x 43.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper center: "Plan of the Ground Floor or Principal Story"; in pen and black ink, center left: "Flower Garden"; in pen and black ink, lower center: "12:0 by 54:0"; in pen and black ink, center right: "Court of Offices"; in pen and black ink, center left: "Flower Garden"; in pen and black ink, lower center, "Gravel Walk"; in pen and black ink, at each corner of the plan (four times): "12:0 Diam.r"; in pen and black ink, throughout, dimensions given
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
John Martin Robinson, James Wyatt (1746-1813), architect to George III , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, pp. 258, 332, fig. 257, NJ18.W99 R62 2012 OVERSIZE (YCBA)