ABSTRACT
By the time of this chapter, there was a clear range of distinctions within the genre of drawing; between sketches, shop drawings, architects' working drawings, and engineers' working drawings, cartoons, and presentation and competition drawings. An early use of the term 'working drawings' is found in a 1785 advertisement for a subscription journal titled Rural Architecture published by John Place, architect and surveyor, who also offered 'Designs for public and private buildings; also directions and working drawings for executing the same at any distance'. Early in the twentieth century, the American engineer Earnest Child usefully explained the different forms of working drawings for mechanical designing and production. In full sized working drawing or cartoon everything material to the design should be expressed, and that as definitely as possible. There is a simple answer to that: the exhibition pitch is in much too high a key, and in long run it will ruin the faculty of the workman who adopts it.
