Durham Park, Elevation and cross-section (9 drawings and design for hog styes)

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Robert Mylne (Edinburgh 1733-1881 London)
Durham Park, Elevation and cross-section (9 drawings and design for hog styes)
a) East facade; b) North facade; c) East facade; d) Cross-section; e) Basement story plan; f) Principal story floor plan; g) Attic story floor plan; h) Bedchamber story floor plan; i) Attic story floor plan; j) Design for hog sties

each inscribed with a scale at the bottom of the sheet, and some further inscribed in ink and numbered in pencil
a)'66'; b) '67'; c) '68'; d) 'floor of Court' and '69'; e) 'Basement story' and with various rooms identified and with measurements and '70'; f) 'Principal story' and with various rooms identified and with measurements and '72'; g) 'South/North' and with various rooms identified and with measurements and '71'; h)'Bedchamber story' and '73'; i) 'Attic story and '74'; j) 'Design for Hog Styes'
traces of pencil, pen and black ink, grey wash, some with watercolor
a) - i) each about 17½ x 12½ in. (44.9 x 31.7 cm.); j) 13 x 9¼ in. (33.1 x 23.8 cm.)
10

Provenance

An unidentified collector's mark (not in Lugt).
Sir Albert Richardson; Christie's, London, 30 November 1983, lot 30, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

A.E. Richardson, Robert Mylne, London, 1955, p. 42, pls. 55-9 (1,2,4,7).

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

Mylne was a Scottish architect who trained with Piranesi in Rome in the 1750s. In 1760 he won the competition to design and build the new Blackfriars Bridge across the Thames. This group of drawings drawings once belonged to Sir Albert Richardson (1880-1964), a former architect himself, who wrote a biography of Mylne.

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