Presentation design of west front and steeple of church, probably for engraving

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  - St Martin-in-the-Fields, London (James Gibbs)

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Reference number

SM drawer 69/1/17

Purpose

Presentation design of west front and steeple of church, probably for engraving

Aspect

Elevation

Scale

^1_/₈ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

At top left, in pen and brown ink, probably by Gibbs, S.^t Martins

Signed and dated

1726, or soon after

Medium and dimensions

Pen and grey ink, with grey wash, on thick laid paper, with modern canvas backing-tape to central horizontal tear, along fold; 653 x 306

Hand

James Gibbs

Watermark

IHS / IVILLEDARY

Notes

The drawing records the executed scheme, dated 1726 on the frieze, and is the successor to a suite of pen-and-grey-wash drawings that Gibbs prepared in 1721 in the early stages of the se design, now in the Ashmolean Museum (see T. Friedman, James Gibbs, 1984, fig. 39).

Level

Drawing

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