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  • image SM D2/8/38

Reference number

SM D2/8/38

Purpose

Variant design for a six-part villa in a Classical style 78 by 81 feet based on a design by an unidentified architect, c.1811-12

Aspect

[12] Front elevation and cross-section of house and offices

Scale

1/8 in to 1 ft

Signed and dated

  • c.1811-12

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on laid paper (670 x 1020)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

The unfinished drawing shows a three-bay, two-storey villa with a three-storey tower and a porte cochere; the windows are round-headed in the tower, single and pedimented at first floor level and tripartite with pilaster-mullions at ground floor level. a balustraded parapet now conceals the first floor roof. The front elevation is close to [SM D2/8/34].

Verso
Rough faint pencil perspective of roof parapet with heraldic shield and two supporters that relates to the Royal College of Surgeons for which the modeller was paid on 9 September 1812.

Level

Drawing

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