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Reference number

SM D5/2/23

Purpose

Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)

Aspect

[7] Plan of basement for anatomy theatre and museum drawn over a survey plan of existing basement including cellars

Scale

1/5 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Basment [sic], Cole Vault / Coal, some dimensions given, calculations and (verso, Dance) Plan of Old building / with new Plan thereon

Signed and dated

  • 1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Black and blue pen and burnt umber wash, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (580 x 915)

Hand

Dance, J. Neill (survey)

Watermark

James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1794

Notes

Drawings [SM D5/2/23], [SM D5/2/21], [SM D5/2/22] with [SM D5/1/1] (second floor of the existing two houses) and [SM D5/2/24] (foundations) appear to represent Phase I of the building work on the southern part of the site which consisted of the anatomy theatre and the south apse and two and a half bays of the museum.

Level

Drawing

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