St Paul's Cathedral and environs, City of London

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Some work in the City of London (11)
  - St Paul's Cathedral and environs, City of London (1). Street plan with processional route, made for a Thanksgiving Service, 1789 or 1797

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Reference number

SM D4/6/3

Purpose

St Paul's Cathedral and environs, City of London

Aspect

[1] Outline street plan of the City leading to St Paul's Cathedral between (W) Temple Bar and Holborn Bars and (E) the Mansion House

Inscribed

as above, street names labelled, noted (by Dance?) The Red Colour denotes the South West Avenue for their Majesties / The Royal Family & the two Houses of Parliament, The Yellow Colour denotes the Easter Avenue for the Corporation / & other persons from the East and of the Town, The Blue Colour denotes the North West Avenue for the Nobility / not in Parliament & other persons from the West end of the / Town and (verso) Procession Plan of / London

Signed and dated

1789, 1797

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, blue, yellow and sepia washes within double ruled border, pricked for transfer on wove paper (520 x 740)

Hand

office, Dance

Notes

The royal red route began at Temple Bar and continued along Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill, the blue route for the nobility and others began at Holborn Bars and running along Holborn and the yellow Corporation route began at the Mansion House and went along Poultry and Cheapside.

As Clerk of the City Works, Dance was responsible for much routine work including surveys, repairs, and the planning of royal occasions. In 1789 he was paid £21.0.4 for making arrangements for the Royal Procession to St Paul's Cathedral, for a service of thanksgiving for the recovery of George III's health (CLRO, City Lands Journal: Sub-Committee for Letting the City Lands, entry for 27 March 1793 [sic]).

The Clerk of Works Journal from 1792 to 1801 (CLRO 131B f.179) records in 1797 under 'The Committee to prepare accommodation for the Common Council attending his Majet to S^tPauls' that Dance and Robert Mylne agreed to a fee of £60 'for the whole business'. The Sovereign and Royal Family, ministers and others attended a service to commemorate recent naval victories, which Farington wrote up in his diary for 19 December 1797.

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Drawing

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