An essay on British cottage architecture : being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance : supported by fourteen designs, their ichnography, or plans, laid down to scale : comprising dwellings for the peasant and farmer, and retreats for the gentlemen : with various observations thereon : the whole extending to twenty-one plates, designed and executed in aqua-tinta
An 1798 London essay by James Malton, published by Hookham and Carpenter, presenting designs for British cottages for peasants, farmers and gentlemen's retreats. The four plates are aquatint views of half-timbered cottages with steep gabled roofs, tall chimneys, casement windows and trees set around them, drawn in soft tonal grey and sepia with a plain architectural elevation approach that a designer could use for rustic cottage facades and vernacular rural building studies.
