Drawings Medieval gothic architectural proportions
Object number
LDSAL2020.1.45
Artist/Designer/Maker
Kerrich, Thomas, Rev - Artist
Production date
1815
Material
paper
pen
ink
pen
ink
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 206mm
Width: 158mm
Width: 158mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
31
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.
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.
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.