[29-31] Survey plan and copies, November-December 1817 (3)

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  - London: National Debt Redemption Office, Old Jewry, City of London: designs, working drawings and drawings for exhibition, 1817-18, 1819, 1823 (100)

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Reference number

SM (29) 48/1/57 (30) 48/1/55 (31) 48/1/54

Purpose

[29-31] Survey plan and copies, November-December 1817 (3)

Aspect

29-31 Plan of site and two copies

Scale

(29-31) bar scales of 3½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

29 The Old Jewry 31 (pencil) 4.6, 6.0 and 6.6 high

Signed and dated

(29) Lincolns Inn Fields / Nov^r25^th1817 (30) 18^thDec^r1817

Medium and dimensions

(29) Pen, pencil, sepia, raw umber and pink washes, pricked for transfer with sepia wash border on stout wove paper (778 x 627) (30) pen, pencil , pricked for transfer on thin wove paper (709 x 502) (31) pen, pencil, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer, double ruled and sepia wash margin on stout wove paper (756 x 547)

Hand

Henry Parke (1790-1835, pupil 1814-1820) and Edward Foxhall (1793-1862, pupil 1812-1821) from Day Book for 18 December 1817

Notes

An earlier outline ground floor plan (drawing 1) dated October 1817 gives the layout of Mello & Pead's property on the left-hand side. These plans (29-31) show the layout of another property on the righthand side. None of these survey plans describe the centre part of the site but it is likely that were four houses with shops facing on to Old Jewry. These plans also give an indication of other buildings to the east of the site, that is, the New Bank Buildings in Princes Street (q.v.).

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