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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 D5/1/10
Purpose
Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis)
Aspect
[29] Ground floor plan drawn over a survey plan of the ground floor.
Scale
1/5 in to 1 ft
Inscribed
Allow 18 inches each person / f crowded (faint pencil, next to theatre), Mr Lewis Wednesday and (verso, office) Out Dble Elephant (may refer to drawing paper of double elephant size, about 40½ x 26 7/8 in or approximately 1020 x 685 mm)
Signed and dated
- 1805-12
Medium and dimensions
Black and brown pen, burnt umber, sepia, blue and yellow washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (1000 x 660)
Hand
Dance, J. Neill (survey)
Watermark
J Whatman
Notes
The anatomy theatre now has three access points, and amendments to the museum entrance are pencilled in. The museum has three circular as well as two semicircular skylights. These last seem not to have been executed since, for example, they are not shown on Soane's survey plan of 1831 ([SM 66/4/1]). The theatre is shown with a circular skylight over which two elliptical skylights have been drawn, the larger of which corresponds to [SM D5/9/3] and [SM D5/5/4] as executed. No details are given of the portico but ten openings are shown on the north front. Kalman (p.215) describes this design as the executed scheme of 1806 (sic) made before the design of the alterations to the facade.
Level
Drawing
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