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  • image SM D3/7/11

Reference number

SM D3/7/11

Purpose

6 St James's Square, Westminster, c.1816

Aspect

[2] Front elevation and sections of balcony, and of wall indicating storey heights

Scale

1/7 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

vertical dimensions given and Marquis of Bristol / 6 S. James Square

Signed and dated

  • c.1816

Medium and dimensions

Pen, raw umber, sepia and blue washes, shaded, within single ruled border, pricked for transfer on wove paper (395 x 265)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatman 1808

Notes

This is a development of [SM D3/7/9], reverting to square-headed windows with the centre light one pane wider than the others and the door now just over 4 feet wide. A continuous, lattice-fronted balcony supported on stone brackets has been drawn in. The window panes (the glazing bars incised white against a sepia wash background) seem grid-like and emphasise the stark rectilinearity of the three-light windows; window mullions and balcony brackets are all vertically aligned. The shouldered architraves of the attic storey pencilled in on [SM D3/7/9] are here fully drawn and the giant pilasters are now of the same width and have the same Corinthian capital with twin volutes and three large, broad, ribbed leaves.

Level

Drawing

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