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143 Piccadilly and Hamilton Place Mews, Westminster, 1807-08
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Reference number
SM D4/10/15
Purpose
143 Piccadilly and Hamilton Place Mews, Westminster, 1807-08
Aspect
[19] Front elevations and wall sections of 143 and 142 Piccadilly
Scale
¼ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
dimensions given and (verso, Dance) Elevation of / Front
Signed and dated
- 1807-08
Medium and dimensions
Black and brown pen, sepia, pink and yellow ochre washes, pencil on wove paper (505 x 685)
Hand
Rowles?, Dance
Notes
The elevations shown here are unfinished but share much in common; both have a giant Corinthian order to the first and second floors and rusticated ground floors with doors on the right-hand side. However, No.142 has semicircular-headed windows on the ground floor while No.143 has flat-headed windows and the attic floor has two dormers behind a balustrade while its neighbour has an attic order. A pen drawing signed 'G. F. Sargent' of c.1849 in the Guildhall Library (Record: 24554-5) shows Hamilton Place, as it was called, with three houses (later 141-3 Piccadilly) with a unified composition, having an attic order, a giant Corinthian order expressed as pilasters on the flanking houses and engaged columns on the centre one and rusticated ground floors with semicircular-headed windows. Photographs taken after a turn of the century re-cladding in Portland stone shows Nos 141-3 with giant Corinthian orders and rusticated bases; window and other details were changed.
Level
Drawing
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