Scale
bar scale of 3 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
as above, (pen) The upper part / of the Cenotaph, labelled: (pencil) Comptrollers / General / Room, Actuary & Chief Clerk / of the Check Branch, Clerks of / Check Branch, Clerk of Check Branch
Signed and dated
- March 17th 1818 and 17th April 1818
Medium and dimensions
Pen, red pen, pink wash, pricked and scored for transfer on (worn and foxed) thin wove paper with two fold marks (668 x 515)
Hand
Soane office
Notes
This drawing is for the first floor with offices for comptrollers, actuary, chief clerk and check bank clerks. The plans drawn in October 1817 for the first, second and attic floors (SM 48/1/46, SM 48/1/45, SM 48/1/44, SM 48/1/50, SM 48/1/49 and SM 48/1/48) were entirely given over to domestic accommodation for the agent Mr Higham. Clearly the brief has changed and widened as was first apparent when, for example, 'Life Annuity' was added to the name of the building (SM 48/2/23, SM 48/2/15 and SM 48/2/6). The ground floor plans now include offices for tontines, power of attorney and a savings bank. The first floor plan has further offices and, importantly, shows the Pitt Cenotaph in a courtyard. The next drawing to show this courtyard is a section through the Pitt cenotaph (SM 48/1/11). The three rectangular apses shown here (a fourth one has been erased) are not apparent in SM 48/1/11.
Level
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