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  • image SM 63/7/13

Reference number

SM 63/7/13

Purpose

[39] View recording building progress, drawn by Henry Parke, 17 April 1816

Aspect

View from north-west with the masonry surround partly constructed, in the foreground a windlass with planks and in the background Old St Pancras church

Signed and dated

  • April 17th 1816

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, raw umber, burn umber, green, blue-grey and Indian red washes, watercolour technique on wove paper (182 x 256)

Hand

Henry Parke (1790-1835, pupil 1814-20)

Watermark

Whatman Balston & Co 1814

Notes

Office Day Book entries: 6 April 'Making a View of a Mausoleum. Parke' and 'Making a drawing of a Mausoleum. Parke' on 9 to 13 April; 'Taking Sketches of a Monument. Parke' 17 to 20 April; 'Making a View of the Monument in St Giles's Burial Ground. Parke' on 22 to 27 April 1816. Marked 'absent unwell' from 29 April to 22 May 1816, when Basevi took over (SM volume 60/188, SM 14/4/7 and SM volume 60/190).

Level

Drawing

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