Survey drawings of part of first floor and water closet, 10 Downing Street, June 1825 (2)

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  - London: 10-12 Downing Street: designs for alterations, 1825 (22)

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Reference number

SM (4) 50/4/11 (5) 50/4/10

Purpose

Survey drawings of part of first floor and water closet, 10 Downing Street, June 1825 (2)

Aspect

4 Plan of part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's House / level with the Dining Room 5 Part plan with Dimensions of Watercloset at the R^t Hon^ble The Chancellor of Exchequer's / Downing Street

Scale

(4) bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot (5) to a scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

4 as above, labelled: The Mews, Bath room, Bedroom, Housemaids Closet, Dining room, Drawing room, Staircase, Temporary passage, Bed room, Staircase, Downing Street and some dimensions given, (in Soane's hand) Tuesday 5 July 1825 N^o 1 2 3 &^c / Shewn to the Ch of the Exchequer / Appr[ove]^d Plan 2 & Groined / Cieling (sic) N^o 3 / To begin in August & to / complete in three Months 5 as above and dimensions given, (added later in pencil by Walter L. Spiers, 1848-1917, curator 1904-17) See N^o 11

Signed and dated

(4) June 1825 and as above ('Tuesday 5 July 1825')

Medium and dimensions

(4) Pen, black, blue and yellow washes, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper with a black wash border and one fold mark (481 x 596) (5) pen on laid secretary paper with three fold marks (202 x 318)

Hand

(4) David Mocatta (1806-82, pupil 1821-27) (Day Books, 20 June 1825: 'taking a plan of part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's House')

Watermark

(5) Britannia with lance, shield and olive branch within crowned oval

Notes

Soane's survey drawing (4) shows part of the first floor above the kitchens before alteration. Downing Street is to the left of the drawing. A note in Soane's hand at the bottom of the page refers to the outcome of a meeting on Sunday 3 July when Soane 'attended the Ch. of the Exchequer [with] 2 fair plans & two perspective views of the new eating room & anti room (sic) proposed to be made in his house' (Day Books, 2 July 1825).

The water closet shown in drawing 5 was significant to Soane's design for the State Dining Room as it played a part in defining the final shape of the room (P. Dean, Sir John Soane and London, 2006, p. 114).

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