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

Level

Drawing

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