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- 1802-08
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Elevation of a battered wall with parapet and with a capped turret 12 ft high and 2½ ft wide
Inscribed: Terrace (twice)
Pen, sepia and pink washes, pencil
The turret is not as executed. [SM D1/14/4] verso has a rough elevated perspective of a roofed corner turret with embattled parapet and terrace wall.
Another Coleorton drawing ([SM D1/12/53] verso) shows a plan and elevation of the Terrace and Winter Garden with a buttressed wall 15½ feet high having a battlemented turret 12 feet in diameter. On the recto, the drawing is dated 22 September 1806 (see note to [SM D1/12/53] verso).
For preliminary designs for the terrace turret see {SM D1/11/22] verso and [SM D1/11/31] verso.
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