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[10] ' Design No 2', variant to drawing [9]
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Reference number
SM volume 59/181
Purpose
[10] ' Design No 2', variant to drawing [9]
Aspect
Plan of the Ground Floor and Elevation next the Road (Design No.2)
Scale
(plan) bar scale of (equivalent to) ½ inch to 10 foot (elevation) bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
as above, The Right Honble Lord Ducie
Signed and dated
- 02/12/1796
(Copy Lincolns Inn Fields Decr 2nd 1796 / Sent to Lord Ducie by the Post)
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and red washes, shaded on wove paper (269 x 334) affixed to p.181 of volume 59
Hand
(no Day Book)
Notes
The plan is a quarter-circle with rectangular stair projections and with two-storey buttresses. As usual, the variation occurs in the design of the gates which here have an added pair of short castellated walls with lancet-headed arches making the ensemble wider and more impressive than in drawing [9].
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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