[93] Working drawing for the carpenter: floor: August 1818

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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 48/1/18

Purpose

[93] Working drawing for the carpenter: floor: August 1818

Aspect

Plan of the Savings Bank Office showing the floor timbers

Scale

bar scale of 7/12 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of one of the / Floors in the National / Debt Office

Signed and dated

August 11^th1818

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey and raw sienna washes on stout wove paper (352 x 504)

Hand

Soane office (no Day Book)

Notes

A comparison of this drawing with SM 48/2/34, a plan of the ground floor dated 19 March 1818, shows this to be a room marked 'Savings Bank Office' that has three windows at the rear of the building and facing eastwards.

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Drawing

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