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Reference number

SM D3/7/12

Purpose

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

Aspect

[4] Front elevation, not finished

Scale

1/7 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

Marquis of Bristol / 6 S. James' Square

Signed and dated

  • c.1816

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash, pricked for transfer, trace lines on wove paper (390 x 265)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

J Whatma(cut)

Notes

This is a variant of [SM D3/7/10] in which all the windows (there are now three Diocletian windows in the attic) are of equal width and equally stressed and without the aediculed emphasis of the centre. In this elevation, a controlling 'grid' or 'module' can be seen most clearly in, for example, the window panes and the relation between the pilasters (coupled at the ends), which are the same width as the side lights of the windows. Faint pencil trace lines run through the centre of the windows. Except for the arched Diocletian windows of the attic storey and the faintly drawn capitals (with broad, ribbed leaves shown also in [SM D3/7/9] the elements of windows and pilasters are severely ruled in. The strongly vertical character of the elevation in which mullions and pilasters line up is modified only by string course, entablature and cornice.

Level

Drawing

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