1/7 in to 1 ft

Marquis of Bristol 6 S. James' Square

• c.1816

Pen, raw umber and sepia washes, pencil, trace lines on laid paper (265 x 240)

Dance

Whatman 1801

As with all five elevations this has three storeys with an attic, and is three bays wide with a door (with side lights) on the right-hand side. The elevations are all, to some degree, composed on a 'grid' that here includes the horizontal lines of rustication of the ground floor, and the centres of the three-light windows. The overall composition has, above the ground floor, a blank two-storey aediculed centre with the Bristol arms and supporters pencilled in above the pediment. Flanking three-light square-headed windows have been amended to triple semicircular heads - each light now the same width. The centre light of the ground floor right-hand 'window' was a narrow door, initially 5 feet wide, and then amended to an unrealistic 3 feet to match the width of the side lights. There are panels ornamented with scrolls between the first and second floor windows. The drive to consistency means that, for instance, the giant pilasters are of two widths and have different capitals so that those on the end can be the same width as the rusticated ends of the ground floor.

Drawing

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