[3] Presentation survey drawing of offices in the east wing, May 1795

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  - London: Somerset House, Lords Commissioners of the Treasury: designs for alterations to offices, 1795 (8)

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Reference number

SM 41/6/3

Purpose

[3] Presentation survey drawing of offices in the east wing, May 1795

Aspect

Plan of the Basement Floor, Plan of the Subground Floor and Plan of the Ground Floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/16 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Somerset Place, The parts teinted Green are / occupied by the Lord Treasurer's / Remembrancer // The parts teinted Yellow are / occupied by the Pipe Office // The parts teinted Red are / occupied by the Dutchy of / Cornwall, (Basement Floor) A, 10.6 high, Pipe Office / Kitchen / 18.4 by 17.6, Pantry / 9.0, Larder, The Lord / Treasurer's / Wine / Remembrancer's, 17.0 by 14.3, 13.0 by 15.0, 7.6 by 15.0, 11.6, 6.6 by / 14.6, 8.6 by 9.6, 9.0 by 14.6, The Lord / Treas^rs Rememb^rs / Scullery / 15.6 by 15.0, The Lord / Treas^rs Rememb^rs / Coals / 12.8 by 17.6, Pipe Office / Coals / 12.8 by 17.6, (Subground Floor) B, 15.2 high, Pipe Office / Record Room / 18.4 by 17.6, 9.0 by 17.6, Records / 16.0 by 14.6, 17.6 by 14.9, 13.0 by 21.6, 22.6 by 14.9, 6.9, 18.0 by 14.6, 25.0 by 15.0, The Lord / Treas^rs Rememb^rs / Kitchen / 15.3 by 14.9, Pipe Office, Parlor / 16.6 by 17.6, Chamber / 8.10 by 17.6, (Ground Floor) C, 16 feet high, Pipe Office / 26.10 by 17.7, Foreign / Apposer's Office, 17.6 by 14.9, 13.0 by 21.6, 22.6 by 14.9, 18.0 by 15.0, 15.9 by 15.0, 8.6 by 15.0, The Lord / Treas^rs Remembrancer / 15.10 by 15.5, The Lord / Treasurer's Remembrancer's / Clerks & Secondarys / 26.6 by 17.9, (pencil) A Mr Rose Foreign Apposers Office / distinct from all the other Offices

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields May 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black, yellow, green (see note) and light red washes, pricked for transfer with a black wash border on stout laid paper with one fold mark (523 x 354)

Hand

Frederick Meyer (1775-?, pupil 1791-96) or Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil 1794-1808)

Watermark

fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, GR

Notes

Colour-coding is used for ease of interpretation, although the washes have faded somewhat meaning that the 'parts teinted green' appear blue and the 'parts teinted red' are very feint.

Level

Drawing

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