[25] Variant design for the elevation

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  - London: Fountain Court, Aldermanbury: surveys and designs for a new counting house for William Adair Jackson Esq. and Messrs Peters & Co, 1798-1805 (25)

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Reference number

SM 40/4/3

Purpose

[25] Variant design for the elevation

Aspect

Elevation, section through the front of the building and full-size detail of the cornice

Scale

bar scale of 2/7 inch to 1 foot and detail Full Size

Inscribed

W. Adair Jackson Esq^r / Fountain Court, labelled: (elevation) 3 Try[gliphs], 5 Try[gliphs], 12 Trygliphs, 5 Try[gliphs], 3 Try[gliphs], floor, springing, floor, floor, A, (detail) A Full size, Wall line (twice), (in Soane's hand) Settled with Mess P & R April 8 1805, Copy and dimensions given

Signed and dated

8 April 1805
Settled with Mess. P & R April 8 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and light red washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper with two fold marks (534 x 696)

Hand

Charles Malton (1788)
Pupil February 1802 - December 1809.
Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)

Notes

This elevation design was settled with the clients, Peters and Richards, on 8 April 1805. It corresponds with the plan in drawing [24]. As in earlier designs (e.g. [18], [19], [21]), the elevation is seven bays wide. The facade gives the appearance of two storeys and a raised basement, but the floors that are labelled and visible through some of the windows, and the section to the left of the sheet, show that internally the building has four floors (basement, ground, first and attic). The façade is very plain save for the entablature with trygliphs and the central pediment with antefixes and ornamental wreath with ribbons. The detail to the right of the sheet shows the profile of the string course at 'A' on the elevation. The design in this drawing matches that shown in an anonymous 1830 drawing of Fountain Court.

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