[87-88] Working drawings for the front elevation, September 1818 (2)

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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 (87) 48/1/20 (88) 48/1/19

Purpose

[87-88] Working drawings for the front elevation, September 1818 (2)

Aspect

87 Elevation of the National Debt Office, ground floor wall plan and part-wall section, variant (pencil) detail of door, (pencil) detail of antefix, verso: (pencil) incomplete five bay front 88 Elevation of Street door into M^rHigham's Apartment and profile

Scale

(87) bar scale of 3½ inches to 10 feet (88) bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 inch

Inscribed

(87) dimensions given (verso, pencil) calculations (88) as above, Wall line, Architrave / full size, A Before B 2½, C. ½ Inch Only and dimensions given

Signed and dated

(87) 4^thSeptember 1818

Medium and dimensions

(87) Pen, blue, grey, sepia and raw sienna washes, pencil on stout wove paper (509 x 709) (88) pencil, pen and sepia wash on stout wove paper (740 x 530)

Hand

(87) ? George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant, 1806-37, curator 1837-60) (88) Soane office (no Day Book)

Notes

On drawing 87 the right-hand basement window has the pencil addition of an incised semicircle with Greek fret stop by the same hand that added an antefix ornament and alternative door details adopted on drawing 88. Here the door detail has a segmental pediment flanked by antefixes over a lintel (perhaps intended for an inscription) supported by straight, reeded brackets. The doorway has a moulded frame for its upper half and is 8 feet 10 inches high and 3 feet 3 inches wide.

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