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Reference number

SM D4/10/39

Purpose

143 Piccadilly and Hamilton Place Mews, Westminster, 1807-08

Aspect

[42] Elevations of two doors and details of plaster ornament to Eating Room and Back Drawing Room

Scale

(doors) ½ in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above (Dance) and (verso, Dance) Drawings of Doors & / Ornamental moldings / by Mr Rowles

Signed and dated

  • 1807-08

Medium and dimensions

Pen, light red and yellow washes on wove paper (370 x 345)

Hand

Henry Rowles, Dance

Notes

Rowles's design, using motifs such as lyres, crossed pens, monkeys, leafy swags and so on, is competent and it is likely that he had an architectural education from his uncle Henry Holland before (with Holland's help) becoming a developer and, it seems, selling on the ground lease for 143 Piccadilly (see note to [SM D4/10/3]).

Fourteen further drawings have been associated with Rowles on the grounds of hand ([SM D4/10/1], [SM D4/10/3], [SM D4/10/14], [SM D4/10/15], [SM D4/10/35], [SM D4/10/28], [SM D4/10/34], [SM D4/10/47], [SM D4/10/46], [SM D4/10/29], [SM D4/10/44], [SM D4/10/43], [SM D4/10/42], [SM D4/10/7]) and he may have been the builder of the Dance-Hollands' mansion.
REPRODUCED. Stroud fig.75b.

Level

Drawing

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