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Reference number
SM D3/9/2
Purpose
Mount Stewart, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1803-04
Aspect
[3] Elevation of entrance front differing from [SM D3/9/1] with, for example, a single instead of a three-part window over the porte-cochere
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1803-04
Medium and dimensions
Pen, blue, burnt umber, sepia and yellow washes on laid secretary paper (155 x 230)
Hand
Ferguson
Watermark
Irish harp and crown
Notes
The details of the portico vary from [SM D3/9/1] so that the upper course is now parallel with the string course.
These elevations of the two-storey, three-bay north entrance front are attributed to John Ferguson since the handwriting of [SM D3/9/3] and [SM D3/9/1] corresponds to that in [SM D3/9/1d]; the watermarks also seem to confirm this attribution. Ferguson worked at Mount Stewart from 1782, at first as the carpenter for James Stuart's Temple though by 1803 he was 'Architect for Superintending the New Building at Mount Stewart' (Mount Stewart accounts, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, D654/H1/4, entry for 22 December 1803).
These elevations of the two-storey, three-bay north entrance front are attributed to John Ferguson since the handwriting of [SM D3/9/3] and [SM D3/9/1] corresponds to that in [SM D3/9/1d]; the watermarks also seem to confirm this attribution. Ferguson worked at Mount Stewart from 1782, at first as the carpenter for James Stuart's Temple though by 1803 he was 'Architect for Superintending the New Building at Mount Stewart' (Mount Stewart accounts, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, D654/H1/4, entry for 22 December 1803).
Level
Drawing
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