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Designs, December 1798 (19)

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Of the following drawings ([1] -20]) two are attributed to Soane [4] and [16] and partly to Soane [17] while the rest are by Henry Hake Seward, most of them made on Christmas Eve 1798 - according to the office Day Book entry for 24 December 1798.
Some of the drawings have been numbered and the catalogue follows this office numbering 1 to 11.

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