[42] Design for a cornice for the staircase at St John’s, Bethnal Green, London, 28 September 1827

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SM 47/5/47

Purpose

[42] Design for a cornice for the staircase at St John’s, Bethnal Green, London, 28 September 1827

Aspect

Elevation and section of the cornice to the western staircase, along with the mouldings shown in profile

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cornice to Staircase (West). Full size. / (in pencil) Mr Streather to give a price per foot for [this] Cornice / as soon as possible & [_ _ _ _ _ _] with [State?] the result the Price must be at per foot / five Shillings per foot Running R.. Streather and some measurements and calculations

Signed and dated

28 September 1827
Sep^t 28: 1827

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, coloured wash of pink, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (546 x 380)

Watermark

SMITH & ALLNUTT / 1823

Literature

Du Prey, 1985, p. 77 Cat. No. 246, Pl. 41

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