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[9] Working drawing for alterations and additions to the offices, 1791
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Reference number
SM 30/1A/4
Purpose
[9] Working drawing for alterations and additions to the offices, 1791
Aspect
Plan of the first floor of Offices at Skelton Castle with the proposed additions & alterations (verso) Plan of the Ground floor at / Skelton Castle, wih the pro- / posed Additions and Alterations, plan of first floor labelled: This is wrong and (pencil) Plan of (vaulted) Basement floor of Offices / under Servts Hall
Inscribed
as above and running dimensions given (verso) as above, Servants Hall / 2 feet below the level / of the Butlers / Pantry, Butlers Pantry / level with the / Floor of Supper Room, Butlers / Working Room, Plate Closet, running dimensions given and Copy of these sent to T [sheet trimmed] probably John Turner, site clerk of works (Ledger B 122-4)
Signed and dated
- 1791
(verso) Great Scotland Yard June 1st 1791
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, light red and yellow washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (555 x 675) (10) pen, sepia, light red and yellow washes on wove paper (332 x 542)
Hand
Frederick Meyer (pupil April 1791-1796) and William Blogg (improver March-June 1791)
Literature
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire: the North Riding, 1966, p.343-4; P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.177
Level
Drawing
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