Drawings Medieval gothic architectural proportions

Object number

LDSAL2020.1.45

Artist/Designer/Maker

Kerrich, Thomas, Rev - Artist

Production date

1815

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 206mm
Width: 158mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Fig. 31.

Inscription content

The Mean & 2 Extreme proportions of the 2 Dimensions of plane figures, in gothic architecture. Intended chiefly to shew [sic] that in the case where they differ most, the smaller Dimension is less than half what it is in the mean.
March 2. 1815.

Inscription content

Archæologia XIX. p. 368.

Inscription content

On the Use of the Figure called Vesica Piscis in the Architecture of the Middle Ages, and in Gothic Architecture; by
T. Kerrich, M.A., F.S.A., January 1820.
Archæologia XIX. p. 353.

References

Reference (free text)

T Kerrich, 'Observations on the Use of the Mysterious Figure, Called Vesica Piscis, in the Architecture of the Middle Ages, and in Gothic Architecture', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 353-68. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 31, pl. XXVIII, between pp. 368 and 369.