A Series of Plans for Cottages or Habitations of the Labourer, Either in Husbandry, or the Mechanic Arts, Adapted As Well to Towns As To the Country...To Which is Added an Introduction, containing many useful Observations on this Class of Building; tending to the Comfort of the Poor and Advantage of the Builder: with Calculations of Expences, A New Edition, Corrected to the Present Time

Various artists/makers

1806

Not on view

Artwork Details

Title: A Series of Plans for Cottages or Habitations of the Labourer, Either in Husbandry, or the Mechanic Arts, Adapted As Well to Towns As To the Country...To Which is Added an Introduction, containing many useful Observations on this Class of Building; tending to the Comfort of the Poor and Advantage of the Builder: with Calculations of Expences, A New Edition, Corrected to the Present Time
Architect: John Wood, the Younger (British, Bath 1728–1782 Batheaston, Somerset)
Engraver: Patrick Begbie (British, active Edinburgh and London 1770–1806?)
Publisher: J. Taylor (London) , at the Architectural Library
Printer: Thomas Bensley (British, baptised London 1759–1835)
Date: 1806
Medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving
Dimensions: 13 3/8 × 11 1/4 × 13/16 in. (34 × 28.5 × 2 cm)
Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934
Object Number: 34.77.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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