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[30] Copy of a working drawing for estimates of the 'finishing'
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Reference number
SM 73/3/48
Purpose
[30] Copy of a working drawing for estimates of the 'finishing'
Aspect
plan and elevation of Entrance from the Keepers Court into the Male Debtors Court, No 9 (as SM 73/3/40)
Scale
Scale, an Inch to a foot
Inscribed
as above, Norwich Castle and as (or very close to) related drawing SM 73/3/40
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and light blue washes, shaded, some hatching on thick cartridge paper (aprox 540 x 665 average)
Hand
Soane office
Notes
Several sets of detail drawings for the 'finishing' would have been made for tendering by various tradesmen. Soane's office 'Day book 1791' has an entry under Norwich Castle for 2 May: 'copying working drawgs / of Ironwork &c' Chawner' and 'Wiliams / Blogg'. Another entry for 3 May 1791 has: 'Norwich Castle / Chawner / Blogg / Meyer / Williams ... drawing the workg drawgs / which are this day sent'. Thomas Chawner (1774-1851, pupil 1789-1796) and Frederick Meyer (1777-?, pupil 1791-9) were pupils, William Blogg (1761-?) an improver who was employed in the office for just four months and Williams may have been Richard Williams a clerk from 1789 to 1803.
It would have been important to the Norwich City Corporation to know the costs for the project and the finishing - because of the scale of the works - would have been extensive. See general note for costs.
It would have been important to the Norwich City Corporation to know the costs for the project and the finishing - because of the scale of the works - would have been extensive. See general note for costs.
Level
Drawing
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