Design
20th century (made)
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A sheet containing various designs and plans for houses including sketch designs for the facade of a country house in the style of the second half of the seventeenth century; four plans and alternative facades for a house with pilasters of a gigantic Ionic order; a sketch plan for a skylight and elevations of two chimneys.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Pencil on tracing paper |
Brief description | Designs by Quinlan Terry, rough sketch designs and plans for various houses, pencil on tracing paper, Great Britain, 20th century |
Physical description | A sheet containing various designs and plans for houses including sketch designs for the facade of a country house in the style of the second half of the seventeenth century; four plans and alternative facades for a house with pilasters of a gigantic Ionic order; a sketch plan for a skylight and elevations of two chimneys. |
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Marks and inscriptions | 'Melbury' (Inscribed in pencil) |
Object history | Rough sketches of this kind are not normally preserved by the architect but they show the initial thought processes from which the presentation drawings and the plans are derived. |
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Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990 |
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Accession number | E.71-1990 |
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Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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