[82] Design for the floor and ceiling of the Pitt Cenotaph

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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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SM 48/1/23

Purpose

[82] Design for the floor and ceiling of the Pitt Cenotaph

Aspect

Floor plan and plan of the ceiling of the hall to the Cenotaph

Scale

bar scale of 1¼ inch to 1 foot

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes on wove paper (542 x 594)

Hand

Soane office no Day Book

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt

Notes

The drawing is for a shallow, vaulted, starfish ceiling with diamond and triangular-shaped panels outlined by ball mouldings. At the top of the drawing is a passageway with a panelled ceiling and between this and the starfish ceiling is the striated underside of an arch. Not dated, it is likely that this drawing is the executed design since it corresponds with plate XLVIII**** published in Soane's Designs for public and private buildings, 1832. The ceiling is 22 feet wide and 15 feet 1 inch deep and is for the hall behind the entrance to the National Debt Redemption Office in Old Jewry.

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Drawing

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