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Design for a Villa - The principal Floor Plan

Drawing
ca.1784 (made)
Artist/Maker
John Plaw (architect)
Place of origin
London (made)

An architectural drawing illustrating the principal floor plan of a design for a villa.

Object details

Categories
Designs
Drawings
Architecture
Object type
Drawing
Titles
  • Design for a Villa - The principal Floor Plan (published title)
  • The Plaw Album (series title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink
Paper
Pencil
Ink
Architectural Drawing
Brief description
Drawing by John Plaw, 'Design for a Villa - The principal Floor Plan', from 'The Plaw Album', an album of 60 architectural designs for villas and cottages, pencil, pen and ink drawing in an album half bound in calf with marbled boards, London, ca.1784
Physical description
An architectural drawing illustrating the principal floor plan of a design for a villa.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 32.1cm
  • Size of covers width: 24.8cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1996
Object history
The designs for villas and cottages in 'The Plaw Album' were later reproduced as aquatints in Rural Architecture or Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa: including some which have been executed, published in 1785 by Isaac and J. Taylor. The publication was one of the first of many books on villas and smaller houses which profoundly affected the development of architecture in the years around 1800. Its aquatint illustrations were the first to set classical buildings into the newly fashionable picturesque landscape. These preparatory drawings show some small differences of detail from the aquatints, particularly in the landscape backgrounds.
Subjects depicted
Floor Plan
Architectural Drawings
Associated object
E.654:17-1996 (Object)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1996
  • Plaw, John, Rural Architecture or Designs from the simple cottage to the decorated villa: including some which have been executed (London: Isaac and J. Taylor, 1785). Plate L
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.654:18-1996

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Record createdApril 20, 2009
Record URL
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