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Reference number

SM 77/2/6

Purpose

[27] First floor timbers

Aspect

Plan of the Timbers of Chamber Floor

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

as above, No 2, Plan B, Iron Tye (twice), This Girder to be Trussed (4 times), Partition No 8, Partition No 9, Partition No 12, Partition No 13 and Partition No 14,

Signed and dated

  • 00/01/1799
    Copy / February 1799

Medium and dimensions

Pen, red and yellow washes, pricked for transfe,r on wove paper (522 x 632)

Hand

The office Day Book for 18-20 February 1799 has Seward, Mansfield and Sword (18 February), Mansfield and Seward (19 February), Mansfield and Sword (20 February). That is: Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848) pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808); Thomas Sword pupil January 1799 - 1804; George Mansfield, surveyor 1 May 1797 - December 1800

Level

Drawing

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