Design for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices using the order of the Temple of Jupiter Stator (Castor and Pollux) at Rome, July 1824 (3)

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  - London: Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, Whitehall & Downing Street: designs for new offices and scheme for the improvement of Downing Street, 1823-33 (284)
    - Designs and working drawings for the new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, December 1823-October 1824 (106)

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Reference number

SM (94) 50/3/2 (95) 49/3/10 (96) 49/4/1

Purpose

Design for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices using the order of the Temple of Jupiter Stator (Castor and Pollux) at Rome, July 1824 (3)

Aspect

94 Perspective View of the Council Office & Board of Trade from the south east 95 Perspective View of the Council Office & Board of Trade from the south east 96 Elevation of a Design for the New Council Offices and Board of Trade &^c at Whitehall

Scale

(96) to a scale

Inscribed

94 as above, The Order of Architecture to be in all its parts similar to the / example of the Three Columns in the Campo Vaccino, Approved / F Robinson / Downing Street / July 23 1824 95 as above, The Order of Architecture to be in all its parts similar to the / example of the Three Columns in the Campo Vaccino, (Copy) / Approved / F Robinson / Downing Street 96 as above, Lincolns Inn Fields

Signed and dated

(94) Lincolns Inn Fields / 22^d July 1824 (95) Lincolns Inn Fields / Copied 27^th July 1824

Medium and dimensions

(94, 95) Pencil, sepia and grey washes with single ruled border on wove paper (482 x 598, 400 x 580) (96) pen, yellow ochre, sepia, burnt Sienna and blue washes on two sheets of wove paper, affixed, with two fold marks (526 x 1038)

Hand

(94) Charles James Richardson (1809-71, pupil and assistant 1824-1837) (95) Edward Davis (1802-52, pupil 1824-26) (96) David Mocatta (1806-82, pupil 1821-27)

Watermark

(94) Weatherley & Lane 1818 (95) Weatherley & Lane (96) Smith & Allnutt 1820

Notes

The new building is shown on all three drawings with the enlarged entablature copied from the Temple of Jupiter Stator (Castor and Pollux). This design was approved by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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