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  • image SM volume 19/21

Reference number

SM volume 19/21

Purpose

Church of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London, 1765

Aspect

[7] Elevation of weather vane

Scale

12/15 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

feet

Signed and dated

  • 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, pencil, shaded on laid paper (445 x 275)

Hand

Dance the Elder

Watermark

V

Notes

The scale was drawn and inscribed by Dance the Elder and the careful draughtsmanship is likely to be his.

A cross flory surmounts an arrow over a baluster and ball. No longer extant, the vane was replaced in 1898, by Blomfield's St Paul's-pattern, cross and ball.

REPRODUCED. D.Finlay, All Hallows London Wall: a history and description, 1985, back cover

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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