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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  - Royal College of Surgeons, 41-42 (now 35-43) Lincoln's Inn Fields, Holborn, Camden, London, 1805-12 (with James Lewis) (226). Survey drawings, preliminary designs, design and working drawings

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Reference number

SM D5/5/9

Purpose

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

Aspect

[194] Plan of circular demonstration area and front two rows of benches, and section through benches

Scale

½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

some dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Theatre

Signed and dated

1805-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, blue, raw umber and sepia washes, pencil on laid paper (510 x 630)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

A railing (pencilled in on [SM D5/5/36]) with two gates is proposed behind the second tier of seating. The minutes of the Building Committee for 15 May 1809 record that the 'Chairman be requested to communicate / with the architects respecting a Rail of Separation in the / Theatre for the accommodation of the Master Governors and Court of Assistants' (RCS Archive, Building Committee Minute Book). It seems that the apprentice surgeons had to be separated from the rest.

See [SM D5/9/8] for full-size details.

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Drawing

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