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Shop with house, Great Tower Street/Mincing Lane, City of London, c.1792
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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, Mr 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.
REPRODUCED. H. Kalman, 'The Architecture of mercantilisim' in P. Fritz & D. Williams, The Triumph of culture: 18th century perspectives, Toronto, 1992, fig.10.
Level
Drawing
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