Scale
4/15 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
One pair Story, Tower Street, Mincing Lane, Mr Prowting and dimensions given
Verso
Rough elevation and rough perspective of a segmentally headed, three-part window, 9ft 1 in wide with mullions marked 6 in wide;
dimensions given
Pencil
The window for the Mincing Lane front is of the Wyatt type except that it reaches almost to the floor and has a glazed area between the lintel and the segmental head. The perspective shows a deep panelled reveal each side of the tall window and the 'mullions' advance about a foot into the room. Kalman wrote of the window details (p.230) 'the first-floor plan indicates I-section iron mullions in the [two] windows facing Mincing Lane. If, as evidence suggests, this design was produced in 1792, it becomes an early example of the use of iron structural elements in permanent architecture'. The evidence for a date comes from an entry for 8 August 1792 in the Clerk of Works Journal at the Corporation of London Records Office (cited by H. Kalman, 'The Architecture of mercantilism' in P. Fritz & D. Williams, The Triumph of culture: 18th century perspectives, Toronto, 1992, p.79, n.25).
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Black and red pen, sepia washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on laid paper (390 x 200)
Hand
Dance
Notes
The Thames Street shop frontage is 20 feet wide with three openings, each 4 feet wide, between four 2-foot piers; on the ground floor is the shop door flanked by shop windows and above, on the first and second floors, three windows light a single front room and the piers run continuously upward. Behind the front rooms are two further rooms, both lit by three-part windows.
Level
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