[6] Design 'No 1', October 1817

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Reference number

SM 48/1/46

Purpose

[6] Design 'No 1', October 1817

Aspect

The Plan of the first Floor

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

as above, Design N^o1 and rooms labelled: Eating Room, Staircase, Water / Closet, Lobby, Drawing Room, Dressing Room, Passage and Chamber, some dimensions given

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields / October, 1817

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pale pink and pale blue washes on wove paper (538 x 740)

Hand

George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant, 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

Notes

This drawing, SM 48/1/45, SM 48/1/44 and SM 48/2/10, inscribed 'Design No 1' and in the same medium and by the same hand, make up a set from which the plans for the ground and basement floors are missing. The elevation (SM 48/2/10) is unfinished thus pen has not been used and the pencil lines not erased. It is almost identical in design to SM 48/2/32 (dated 14 October 1817) except, for example: the reduction in height of the 'spinning top' detail and the addition of 'knobs' to the antefixae. For convenience, both elevational drawings (SM 48/2/32 and SM 48/2/10) have been catalogued as 'design A'; further variant designs B1-B4, C1-C3, D1-D2, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N1 and N2 follow.

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