[16] Variant design (B2) for the front elevation with a three or four-bay attic storey, October 1817

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Reference number

SM 48/2/12

Purpose

[16] Variant design (B2) for the front elevation with a three or four-bay attic storey, October 1817

Aspect

Front elevation, wall plan and section of wall

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, warm sepia and raw umber washes, shaded, pricked for transfer on thin wove paper (572 x 709)

Hand

Edward Foxhall (1793-1862, pupil 1812-1821) and Henry Parke (1790-1835, pupil 1814-1820) from Day Book

Watermark

1816

Notes

This is a variant of design A (SM 48/2/32 and SM 48/2/10) and keeps the same overall form. What changes with the drawing (design B2) is that the rhythm of the round-arched windows differs because the facade is now composed of five bays instead of six while the attic has three bays instead of four, and the rustication has changed to banded on three floors to the height of the springing line. The narrow bay to the left (a few inches more than the three-feet width of the door) now has windows to the first and second floor with the circular window above the door of earlier designs.

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