Interior Manor House, Little Chesterford, Essex, England/Three Aisled Main Hall View toward the Masonry Ktchen Block, c. 1225
Artist
Ernest Alexander Born
(American, 1898 - 1992)
Date1975
MediumBlack ink with light blue pencil
DimensionsSheet: 28 7/8 × 23 1/8 in. (73.3 × 58.7 cm)
Image: 14 1/4 × 14 1/2 in. (36.2 × 36.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Beatrice and Thomas Roberts
CultureAmerican
MarkingsPrinters marks below drawing. Several stray ink marks at bottom edge of the sheet (approx. 1 in. each)
InscribedTitled, center: as indicated in record
Inscribed (on sticker) upper right: "fig 3438/PII.100"
Inscribed lower right: "fig 348/pII101"
Inscribed (on small sticker) center of sheet: "22 cm/=52 picas"
Erased writings in pencil inscribed on the center of the sheet, lower left, and lower right.
PortfolioFrom vol 2 of the "Plan of St. Gall" by Ernest Born and Walter Horn (Berkeley: University of California Press,1979), fig. 348, p. 101
Catalogue raisonnéR. Nicholas Olsberg, Architect and Artist: Ernest and Esther Born (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2015).
Object numberPC2018.26.1
ClassificationsPrint Collection
DescriptionPerspectival drawing of a wood-timbered interior space for publication in a book of Medieval architecture, illustrated by Born. A figure holding a pole/staff can be seen in the left middle distance guarding the entrance and an open fireplace meets the figure halfway. The structure of the space is exposed, revealing te central truss with its full complement of columns and bracing struts, and the roof over the nave with every individual piece of timber.This record has been reviewed by University Galleries staff but may be incomplete or contain errors. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For any inquiries about the information listed, please email galleries@sandiego.edu.
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