Scale
to a scale of 7½ inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
(To be returned) / No..20/25 / Elevation of one of the Staircase Windows / Brickwork / Casement to / open / Casement to / open / Bath Stone / 14” Rough Cut Arch / Set in Mortar - / Section through one of / the Staircase Windows (West) / Section through Window / of Robing Room / Section through / Window of Staircases / (East) / The Whole of the Masonry of these Windows to be of Bath Stone / Plan of Windows in the North and South Flanks / of the Staircases (West)_ / 6” Portland Ashlaring / Plan of the lower Windows jaunts, & Ashlering [sic] / (in pencil) West door / (in pencil) As Assigned &executed] / Plastering / Plan of Upper Windows / Plastering / Plan of Windows of Vestry Room Robing Room / and Staircases (West) - / (in pencil) done / Plan of Lower Windows / Plan of the Upper Windows / Plan of Windows of Staircases_ (East-) / (in pencil) done / Plan of Lower Window / (in pencil) Stair Case East / Plan of Upper Window and measurements and some calculations given
Signed and dated
- January 1826
Lincolns Inn Fields / Jany 1826._
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, wash, coloured washes of brown, blue, Payne’s grey, orange pink, stone and yellow, pricked for transfer on wove paper (749 x 544)
Hand
Probably Soane Office, draughtsman
Watermark
SMITH&ALLNUTT / 1823
Level
Drawing
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