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Design

ca. 1726-1733 (made)
Artist/Maker
Lovett Pearce, Edward (Sir) (architect)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Part of the designs for the ground floor of Nos 5, 11 and 12 Henrietta Street, Dublin showing a doorway and a window with ashlar rustication on the architraves.


Object details

Categories
Designs
Architecture
Object type
Design
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink
Pen and Ink
Pencil
Drawing
Brief description
Part of designs for ground floor of houses on Henriette Street, Dublin, by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce (ca.1695-1733).
Physical description
Part of the designs for the ground floor of Nos 5, 11 and 12 Henrietta Street, Dublin showing a doorway and a window with ashlar rustication on the architraves.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.7cm
  • Width: 37.2cm
Taken from Lorimer, C. and Newton, C. (ed.), The collection of drawings by Sir John Vanbrugh and his circle in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V & A, 1996, p. 54, cat. 145.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Mr Gardiner's 2 new houses from the Primate's wall the 1st house is clear 34-6 the wall thick 1-8 High from the base of the primates iron rail to the underpart of the fatia 13-4 so that the first house is clear of the out walls wile be 34-9 of which the street parlor of 21 Sqrs the partishon wall 1-2 & hall 12-7 34:9 the windows wide 3:9- the windows High 9 blocks at 10 in each 7-6 4 blocks to the bases at do 40 in architrave on 6 or 7½ in the door high 10-10 10 feet high [...?] 11:5½ the door wide 4-9 the architrave of do 9½ [...?] the doors height with the architrave wile be h:7½ distance of one archit of the door to the other 6 inches on the breadth of the trusses to the cornices.' (Lettered in ink)
  • Numbered in ink with dimensions and scale
Object history
Part of the Vanbrugh Album, which was purchased in 1992 with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund, The Monument Trust, The Sainsbury Trust, and an anonymous donor
Subjects depicted
Architraves
Doorway
Window
Place depicted
Dublin (City)
Summary
Part of the designs for the ground floor of Nos 5, 11 and 12 Henrietta Street, Dublin showing a doorway and a window with ashlar rustication on the architraves.
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Lorimer, C. and Newton, C. (ed.), The collection of drawings by Sir John Vanbrugh and his circle in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: V & A, 1996, p. 54, cat. 145.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2124:205-1992

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Record createdApril 30, 2009
Record URL
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