Scale
¼ in to 10 ft
Inscribed
as above, NB the plots distinguished by the / Yellow Color are agreed to be / granted to Sir Drummond Smith / or his assigns and nominies, labelled and calculations; two blue-washed gardens are labelled Lord Buckinghamshire Gardens and Mr Sullivans Garden; four pink-washed house plots in Hamilton Place are labelled Lord Lucan, Lord Buckinghamshe, Rt Honble John / Sullivan, Honble Rob. Dundas, Subterraneous / offices (twice), four pink-washed mews plots ae labelled Buckinghamshire, Mr Sullivan, Lord Lucan, Mr Antrobus and (verso, Dance) General Plan of Hamilton Street / with the Lots described & Houses / in front of Piccadilly
Dated: 1807
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pink, yellow and blue washes, pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (370 x 515)
Hand
surveyor, Rowles?, Dance
Notes
The three plots washed in yellow belonging to Sir Drummond Smith - next to the house built for him by S. P. Cockerell c.1795 (the coach house shown in rough outline) - have a shared frontage of 96 feet and face south on to Piccadilly. The plan relates to land leased from the Crown by Smith for development; Dance-Holland buying the site immediately next to Smith's house as well as a nearby mews site. By 1812, Boyle's Court Guide listed Lady Catherine Tilney Long, the Duke of Bedford, Earl Cork, Lord Lucan and the Earl of Buckinghamshire as living at 1-5 Hamilton Place.
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