[Studies of ironwork: The Building News]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1878
Maker: William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931)
Dimensions:
Image: 123 x 179 mm (12.3 x 17.9 cm)
Sheet: 334 x 219 mm (33.4 x 21.9 cm)
Medium: Black printing ink on paper
Object number: R.85.17
DescriptionTwo early drawings by Lethaby, reproduced in the Building News. Top: two studies, one of the west door at Nottingham Minster the other of Lincoln Cathedral (". . . Part of Chancel Gates from aisles", "Early Ironwork"). Signature and date bottom right. Scale. Bottom half: A detailed frontal view of a "wrought iron hinge . Early French" with a scale in feet and inches. This drawing might have been made from an older drawing or reproduction, or from a model in a museum (Lethaby's first visit to France was made in 1880).
