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  • image SM D4/1/25

Reference number

SM D4/1/25

Purpose

St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, Old Street, Finsbury, Islington, London. 1777, 1781-2 and c.1794-1811

Aspect

[32] Plan, elevation and section of room, 13 ft 1 in by 11 ft 8 in, with chimney piece and tripartite window

Scale

1 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

dimensions given and, on a plain horizontal tablet above the chimney-piece mantel, eight lines of (mostly illegible) verse that ends A Nation must be virtuous to be free

Signed and dated

  • 1777, 1781-2, c.1794-1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, green earth and raw umber washes on thick wove paper (715 x 485)

Hand

Dance, office hand C

Notes

The internal wall elevation is washed, above the dado, in two kinds of green, the chimney-breast in a slightly bluer green than the flanking walls in a grey-green. The chimney-piece supports a framed and pedimented blank tablet flanked by volutes. The room dimensions seem not to correspond with any of Dance's plans for St Luke's Hospital and so the drawing may not belong here.

Level

Drawing

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