[13] Floor plan, October 1817

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  - London: National Debt Redemption Office, Old Jewry, City of London: designs, working drawings and drawings for exhibition, 1817-18, 1819, 1823 (100)

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Reference number

SM 48/1/49

Purpose

[13] Floor plan, October 1817

Aspect

The plan of the two pair Story

Scale

bar scales of 3½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

as above, Nursery, Staircase, Lobby and Chamber (twice)

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields / October 1817

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pale pink and pale blue washes within double ruled and black wash border (622 x 818)

Hand

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

Watermark

J Whatman 1816

Notes

A comparison of the ground floor plan (SM 48/1/51) with earlier plans (SM 48/1/47 and SM 48/1/53) shows very little change. Soane's addition of external steps to the kitchen and amendment to the messengers' room (SM 48/1/53) have been incorporated but not the proposed lobby. This drawing, SM 48/1/50, and SM 48/1/48 are the same as SM 48/1/46, SM 48/1/45 and SM 48/1/44. At this stage there is no provision for William Pitt's Cenotaph so that the upper floors are entirely domestic accommodation on a generous scale for Samuel Higham (in charge of the National Debt Redemption Office) and his family.

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