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Church of St Bartholomew-the-Less, West Smithfield, City of London, 1789
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Reference number
SM D4/9/10
Purpose
Church of St Bartholomew-the-Less, West Smithfield, City of London, 1789
Aspect
[9] Plan at a level below the springing point and section of timber framing of octagon with four sides of 13 ft 6 in length and four sides of 20 ft 3 in length and showing iron straps
Scale
¼ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
some dimensions given, that is, two short sides are marked 10.0 internal and 13.6 external and the diagonal is marked 40.0 feet
Signed and dated
- 1789
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and yellow washes, shaded, pencil, plan pricked for transfer on laid paper (775 x 595)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1773
Notes
The 1773 dated watermark of the Whatman laid paper on which Dance's drawing was made is of great interest to paper historians. J H Balston (The Elder James Whatman, vol.II, 1992, p.xi, n.34) states that 'The occurence of dates in British papers before 1794 is very rare. ...the younger James Whatman dated his Antiquarian paper certainly as far back as 1784 (Drawing by John Smeaton in the Library of the Royal Society Bx IV/1 No.79).' The drawing catalogued above had been cut down from an Antiquarian-sized sheet. Another of Dance's drawings, for St Bartholomew's Hospital, London [SM D4/8/4], was made on Whatman laid paper with a dated watermark of 1789.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.52b
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.52b
Level
Drawing
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