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Reference number

SM 89/5/3

Purpose

[3] Survey plan of first floor

Aspect

Original Plan of Drawing Room Floor at Right Honbl Lord Eliots St James Sq and Stack of Flues (verso) Original Plan of Drawing Room / at the Right Honbl Lord Eliots / St James Square

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 27/05/1805
    May 27 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pricked for transfer, on laid paper with 5 fold marks (660 x 522)

Hand

Soane office hand

Notes

One of four survey drawings, three of which are dated 27 May 1805, and inscribed by the same hand. The balconies were later removed.

Level

Drawing

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