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  • image SM D5/4/7

Reference number

SM D5/4/7

Purpose

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

Aspect

[184] Elevation and section of rosette ornament

Scale

FS

Inscribed

No 8 of these Flowers / for the center of the Sofites / this drawer full size, Section and (verso, faint pencil, James Carter?) Mr garnigan [?] No 37 Hatton garden

Signed and dated

  • 1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Brush and sepia wash (elevation), pen, sepia and pink washes (section), partly pricked for transfer on laid paper (300 x 285)

Hand

Dance, Carter?

Watermark

cartouche with bend surmounted by fleur-de-lis (cut)

Notes

'Mr Jernegam', elsewhere spelt 'Jernegan', is recorded in the Royal College of Surgeons Building Committee Minutes (18 May 1811) as charging £245.6.4 for measuring the works, and a George Jernegan measured the work done for repairing the party wall to Mr Ord's house at 43 Lincoln's Inn Fields on 5 January 1812 (SM, Priv.Corr.xv.j.1). Colvin gives a George Jernegan or Jernigham (sic) (c.1760-1815) who was elected a member of the Surveyors' Club in 1805 and died in 1815 age 55.

The flower with joined petals and an inner cup with six stamens is almost 7 inches in diameter.

Level

Drawing

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