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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).

Level

Drawing

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