Shop with house, Great Tower Street/Mincing Lane, City of London, c.1792

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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)
  - Shop with house, Great Tower Street/Mincing Lane, City of London, c.1792 (9). Preliminary designs and revised designs for premises for William Prowting, apothecary

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Reference number

SM D3/6/11

Purpose

Shop with house, Great Tower Street/Mincing Lane, City of London, c.1792

Aspect

[4] Ground floor plan

Scale

4/15 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Ground floor, Tower Street, Mincing Lane, M^r Prowting, labelled Shop, Compting house, Hall, Parlour, Yard, Water Closet and Safe, stair treads numbered 1 to 22

Signed and dated

c.1792

Medium and dimensions

Black and red pen, sepia washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper (390 x 195)

Hand

Dance

Notes

The apothecary's shop occupies just under half of the ground floor area, there is a parlour at the back with a miniscule yard, a water closet and safe behind, and a counting house and hall on the side facing Mincing Lane. The piers of the shop front on to Tower Street are plain, that is, without pilasters, though these appear on [SM D3/6/8] and [SM D3/6/7].

REPRODUCED. H. Kalman, 'The Architecture of mercantilisim' in P. Fritz & D. Williams, The Triumph of culture: 18th century perspectives, Toronto, 1992, fig.10.

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Drawing

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