Design drawing
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
Pencil and ink designs for an oak writing table in the Gothic style, comprising from top left to bottom right: side elevation showing the trestle-tie and stretcher joined by a vertical central rail and two ogee-curved struts; end elevation, showing one of the testles; a ruled 5-foot scale; full-scale drawing of the roundel carved with a cinquefoil flower for the trestle-tie and trestles; full-scale drawing of the MB monogram for the trestles, pricked for transfer.
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