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Reference number
SM D3/6/6
Purpose
10 St James's Square, Westminster, c.1814
Aspect
[6] Plan and elevation of bookcase, 25 ft wide in a room also 25 ft wide
Scale
½ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
Drawers / or Shelves / inclosed wn / folding doors and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c.1814
Medium and dimensions
Pen and crimson, raw umber, warm sepia and blue washes, shaded on laid paper (320 x 465)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
D & C Blauw IV
Notes
The bookcase is 8 feet high with shelves over low cupboards and consists of nine bays: bays one, three, seven and nine project by 9 inches and are emphasised by slim pilasters supporting friezes crowned by urns, vases and busts. The wall is washed a light crimson that matches the upholstery of a couch with scrolled ends.
The back and front bedchambers either side of the top-lit antechamber or Octagon on the first floor were about 20 feet square while the 'Great Parlour' with its Ionic screen on the ground floor was about 28 by 20 feet and the other rooms on that floor were about 20 by 20 and 18 by 15 feet. It is not certain which room was to be fitted out as a library and neither of the bookcase drawings is inscribed for T. F. Heathcote. However, all six drawings catalogued here for 10 St James's Square are in a folder made from a re-used blank drawing sheet (watermarked D & C Blauw IV) labelled by George Bailey (Soane Museum curator 1837-60) Sketches of a design for a Library &c / for T F Heathcoe Esq.
See also an unidentified design for a bookcase, 1811 or after. This bookcase is 18 feet 6 inches wide and 8 feet 4 5/8 inches high.
The back and front bedchambers either side of the top-lit antechamber or Octagon on the first floor were about 20 feet square while the 'Great Parlour' with its Ionic screen on the ground floor was about 28 by 20 feet and the other rooms on that floor were about 20 by 20 and 18 by 15 feet. It is not certain which room was to be fitted out as a library and neither of the bookcase drawings is inscribed for T. F. Heathcote. However, all six drawings catalogued here for 10 St James's Square are in a folder made from a re-used blank drawing sheet (watermarked D & C Blauw IV) labelled by George Bailey (Soane Museum curator 1837-60) Sketches of a design for a Library &c / for T F Heathcoe Esq.
See also an unidentified design for a bookcase, 1811 or after. This bookcase is 18 feet 6 inches wide and 8 feet 4 5/8 inches high.
Level
Drawing
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