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Reference number

SM D3/5/8

Purpose

33 Hill Street, Westminster, 1803

Aspect

[14] Section, plans and details of queen-post roof truss

Scale

Scale ½ Inch to the Foot (faint pencil)

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • 1803

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber, burnt umber, sepia and yellow washes, shaded, pencil on wove paper (280 x 665)

Hand

Dance

Notes

Though not labelled Hill Street, the roof truss is the same span as that shown on [SM D3/5/20] and [SM D3/5/21] and must be an alternative design. As with other drawings for roof trusses by Dance, it is clearly and fully drawn with the different members distinguished by different washes and by shadows. David Yeomans (email, 19 July 2001) commented that 'what is interesting about this is the apparent use of iron fasteners at the feet of the queen posts'.

Verso
Rough elevation of a pyramid tomb and rough details of beams
Pencil
This is perhaps related to Dance's scheme for a monument to George Washington made in 1800; Dance began working on Hill Street from about 2 June 1803.

Level

Drawing

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