Design for a cenotaph in memory of 'Loudon Esqre':

NOTES: This design probably dates from 1843 following the death of John Claudius Loudon for whom Wightwick had written 'Notice of a remarkable Corinthian capital in the Vatican' in the Architectural Magazine, 1834 (vol. I) and on iron architecture in 1837 (vol. IV), and in which several of his buildings were noticed. This design is one of a number of drawings bound into five volumes entitled 'Architectural works of George Wightwick', made between 1832 and 1850. Wightwick instructed his articled pupils to make this detailed set of retrospective drawings to illustrate every building of importance he had designed. The drawings were intended to serve both as a record of Wightwick's completed buildings and as a method of conveying to his students the design process from initial working design to finished structure.