A Rare Victorian Architect’s Site Plan for Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Hanwell 1874 reserved The multi-coloured rope twist border

The multi-coloured rope twist border provides a suitably nomadic finish

intriguing

The front facing section has a wonderful craquelure to the paint

and surviving from the latter part of Victorian period England

A Rare Victorian Architect’s Site Plan for Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Hanwell 1874 reserved The multi-coloured rope twist borderOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1874 Height: 34. 5 Width: 53. 5 Compact: 8. 75 wide x 6. 25 high The large and scarce folding architects site plan, in 36 sections, opening from a tooled leather cover inscribed The county of Middlesex Lunatic asylum Hanwell Ground Plan 1874 Henry Martin C. F. Hanwell, in a colour wash and showing the plan of the ground floor with an array of wards, interesting rooms and wings,