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  • image SM 67/3/1

Reference number

SM 67/3/1

Purpose

[220] Design for repairs to Wren's portico, 1818

Aspect

(pencil) Section of Portico repairs at / Chelsea, Chelsea Hospital

Inscribed

as above, labelled (past curator) Case E (under Students Room) / 62 Drawer / G. / 7 Sheets. / D Inventory . p 157 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • (pencil) 1818

Hand

Soane office

Notes

The Chelsea Hospital Board of Commissioners' minutes for the 25 June 1817 record that Soane was 'ordered to examine the Great Hall and the Vestibule as to the Repair thereof' and it is possible that these drawings are connected with those repairs.

Literature

Royal Hospital Chelsea: Board Minutes and Papers, January 1816-September 1818 (National Archives WO 250/377)

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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