"Pitt, fast asleep, wearing only nightcap and night-shirt, walks down a staircase holding up a lighted candle in his right hand. On his right only are banisters, on his left the steps abut on a gulf indicated by the top of an arch supporting the stair; he is about to descend the first step, perilously near the left edge. Behind him, in a wall of heavy masonry, is an open door surmounted by a crown. A tall gothic window pierces the wall of the building."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sleepwalker
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Possibly etched from a drawing by Sneyd. See British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 48 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1795, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Candlesticks, Castles & palaces, Interiors, Quatrefoils, Sleepwear, Somnambulism, and Stairways
Pen and black ink architectural drawing of a fan-vaulting ceiling design that includes shields or blank escutcheons within quatrefoils. A preliminary measurement scale appears to the side of the image and lacks numerical assignment
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and One of four drawings in a folder.
Subject (Topic):
Ceilings, Vaults (Architecture), Quatrefoils, and Escutcheons (Heraldry)
A pencil skteches of designs for Gothic ceiling ornaments; on the verso two sketches: the first, a Palladian house with five bays, attached to a church by a walk; and the second, a floor plan for a house[?].
Alternative Title:
Pencil sketch of an elevation and plan of a Palladian five-bay house attached to a church by a covered walk
Pen and black ink architectural drawing of an elevation of a gothic room featuring columns, profiles of cornice molding, a detail of a fleur-de-lis or Strasburg lily, and a single window with intersecting lattice work
Alternative Title:
Elevation of a gothic room of three bays by two, with gothic ornaments and cornices
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and One of four drawings in a folder.
Subject (Topic):
Quatrefoils, Cornices, Architectural decorations & ornaments, Fleur-de-lis, and Floor plans
