Columns, Doric

Date: 1850 - 1870

From: Beatson, William, 1807-1870 :[Architectural plans of buildings in England and Nelson. 1840-1870].

By: Beatson, Charles Edward, 1846-1927

Reference: Plans-99-020-222/234

Description: Includes: Pencil drawing of monument with columns. Sheet showing Doric entablature. Pencil sketches of man in breeches carrying water buckets. Sketch of five windows / Wm Beatson, Stoke. Elevation, plan and section of a columned building showing a method of ascertaining the heights of pediments. Design for proposed customhouse, etc, Auckland, N.Z. / C E Beatson, architect Elevations of terrace housing or shopfronts. Details of ornamentation of Westminster Abbey [and] Crosby Hall, from "Le Moyen-Age Monumental at Archeologique" no. 42 / Bachelier lith. Publie par A Hauser, Paris; imprimerie Lemercier, Benard et Co Three further sketches of ornamentation and entablatures on Doric temples. Sketch elevation of details on a commercial building (pencil sketch) Design for a Wesleyan Chapel at Bourn, Lincolshire / T Pilkinton, architect, surveyor and builder. Quantity: 13 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil, and/or watercolour on sheets sizes varying to 500 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Patrick Beatson, in 1999.

Date: 1946

From: Wilson, Derek John, 1922- :[Architectural plans and drawings. 1940-1980s]

Reference: Plans-2008-038-001/009

Description: Includes lettering samples, illustrations of different methods of space covering, walls in various historic styles (Egyptian, Greek, Early Christian, Assyrian, Roman, Byzantine, Romanesuq, Gothic, Renaissance, Modern), a composition exercise, and a study of Greek and Roman columns. Quantity: 9 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil drawings and watercolours, sizes varying from 350 x 285 mm to 575 x 990 mm.

Date: 1975

Reference: Eph-F-MUSIC-NZSO-1975-01

Description: Poster for a Symphony Orchestra concert in Tauranga shows a graphic used for the 1975 prom season, of a young woman in a sleeveless gown seated beside a fluted column under a curved ceiling, with a rose bush beside her. She wears roses in her hair. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, on medium-heavy card, 765 x 508 mm. Provenance: Donated by the NZ Symphony Orchestra, 2013

Date: 1930 - 1940

By: Rule, Percival Watts, 1889-1953

Reference: A-136-019

Description: Shows a figure in classical dress seated in the left foreground at the base of a fluted Doric column, reading a scroll. A collection of books both stacked and serried are arranged in the centre. At the right is another Doric column; both it and the one at the left are encircled with ribbon on which the names of architects are inscribed: (left column) Palladio, Vignola, Michelangelo, Vitruvius, Brunelleschi, Serlio; (right column) Wren, Inigo Jones, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Chambers. In the central distance is a high square tower with small Gothic spires around its top. The whole is framed in a fluted border with formally arranged laurel leaves. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - P Watts Rule Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 115 x 90 mm.