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  • image SM D4/8/4

Reference number

SM D4/8/4

Purpose

St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, City of London, 1791-5

Aspect

[4] Plan showing Gibbs's Great Court in block form with Dance's Surgeons Theatre on axis with the W. Wing, and with ground floor plan of proposed Laboratory, Consultation / room, Shop, Drug room and Herb room to the S and Treasurers Stable and Coach House, Stands and Carpenters Shop to the W

Scale

1/13 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above, dimensions given and (verso, pencil) St BH

Signed and dated

  • 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, blue, green earth and pink washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (710 x 1090)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1789

Notes

The 1789 watermark of this drawings of interest to paper historians since it is an early dated Whatman watermark. For a note and a still earlier example see St Bartholomew-the-Less (SM D4/9/10]).

Level

Drawing

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