Abstract
There are thirteen designs for Lea Castle, Worcestershire, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. They are executed in watercolour and consist of two elevations and eleven views of a building in the Norman style (Pls 21b-23d). The elevations are meticulously drawn and reveal the hand of an architectural draughtsman, whereas the interior views are closer to artists’ impressions, with details indistinctly suggested rather than defined. The rough state of these sketches indicates that they were merely suggestions for the rooms of the proposed castle. The designs have been attributed by Professor Alistair Rowan to the antiquarian and architect John Carter (1748-1817) on calligraphic evidence and from the existence of other drawings by Carter for Lea Castle in his papers at the British Museum. These pencil sketches include an elevation, a ‘Saxon design covering entrance to Ice House at Lea Castle [executed in September and October 1816] Worcestershire, seat of J. Knight Esq.’, views from the north gate tower, ‘Details. Lea Castle’, showing various Norman doorways, and views from towers.
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