Scale
½ in to 1 ft
Inscribed
labelled including Top of new Coping 3Ft..3in above the top of the present Blocking, Top of present Blocking, Rodburn (twice), Stone Plinth, dimensions given and calculations
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pink wash, pencil on wove paper (675 x 340)
Hand
Dance
Watermark
J Whatman 1811
Notes
'Rodburn' is written against the 42 feet 2 inches of the three-storey elevation and against the 5 feet 6¼ inches of the area below the 'Top of present Blocking' and may refer to 'Composition Stucco on / Brick Jointed & coloured / in Imitation of Stone' (bill of Francis Bernasconi, 1813-14, ASH 2809). Another of Bernasconi's bills, under 'Outside' day work, includes an item 'as per vouchers given weekly to Mr Rodbourn [sic] for Lathing Lintels & Bond Timbers & repairing Plastering in the old part of house .... Building Scaffolding to the outside & Portals & bringing out Extra thickness to form a Bracket for Moldings and Copings, & Sides of Openings & arches of South Portal, taking off Bricks resetting them in Composition...' (ASH 2828). It seems that Mr Rodbourn (or Rodburn) was a particularly skilled tradesman who made things ready for the plasterers before they arrived on site. He did not patent his composition stucco.
Level
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