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  • image SM volume 76/12

Reference number

SM volume 76/12

Purpose

[85] Site record drawing, 9 October 1810

Aspect

View of part of the New Infirmary at Chelsea Hospital (west wing)

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • 9th Octr. 1810

Hand

Soane office

Notes

The foundations were laid from June 1810, after the Board of Commissioners had (finally) approved the design. Progress views were being made throughout September and October 1810.

Literature

W. Godfrey (ed.), Survey of London: volume 2: Chelsea, part 1, 1909, pp. 3-8

Level

Drawing

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