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

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Reference number

SM D5/1/11

Purpose

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

Aspect

[28] Amended copy of [SM D5/1/9] drawn over a survey plan of the ground floor

Scale

¼ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

labelled (office hand - Messrs Keeble & Co.?) Lincolns Inn Fields, Portugal Street, Museum, Theatre, College House (no.41) and Yard

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black, pink, yellow, blue and raw umber washes, pencil, within single ruled border, pricked for transfer on wove paper (950 x 610)

Hand

Dance, office (Keeble & Co.?), J. Neill (survey)

Watermark

J Whatman 1808

Notes

Amendments include, for example, a door and step for the museum at the north end. The front room of No.42 has twin alcoves on the west wall that appear in a later drawing dated 1 June 1812 ([D5/9/14]). Both [D5/1/9] and [D5/1/11] show two elongated elliptical skylights in the museum that were not built. [D5/3/2] shows preliminary details of a skylight of the same form and dimensions. However, while the ten-bay front to Lincoln's Inn Fields in [D5/1/9] has amendments, these are omitted on this copy drawing and a ten-bay front is shown instead of the executed seven-bay front.

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Drawing

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