[2] Design No.1 for alterations

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  - London: 22 St James's Square: survey drawings and unexecuted designs for alterations, for Samuel Thornton, 1799, 1808

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Reference number

SM 39/1/75

Purpose

[2] Design No.1 for alterations

Aspect

The Plan of the Ground Floor / with the proposed Alterations and The Plan of the One Pair Floor / with the proposed Alterations (verso) pencil drawing of the ground floor plan to a larger scale than the recto

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Design N^o.1, Samuel Thornton Esq^r St James Square, labelled: Area, The Hall, Eating Room, Best Staircase, Back Stairs, Breakfast Room, Closet, M^r Thorntons / Dressing Room and Ante Room, Drawing Room, Lobby, Closet, Dressing Room and Bed chamber and dimensions given

Signed and dated

18/06/1799
Copy Lincolns Inn Fields June 18 1799

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes onwove paper (665 x 544)

Hand

Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808.

Notes

A comparison with the survey drawing ([1]) shows that the entrance has been moved to the left and that hall and stair have been reversed so that on entry the hall precedes the stair. A three-bay breakfast room behind the eating room has been made with the removal of another stair.

Level

Drawing

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