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Designs for the house, 1785 (11)

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Drawings 6-16 are office copies of design drawings for the construction of the main block of Anniston House, dated 1785. The catalogue sequence here follows the office numbering on most of the drawings. Several are unnumbered but appear to fit within the wider drawing set. There are only eleven drawings in this group but drawing 16 is labelled “No. 28”, suggesting that at least seventeen drawings are missing from the complete set.

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