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Reference number

SM 39/1/46

Purpose

[18] Survey of elevation to the garden

Aspect

Elevation and rough pencil detail of arch

Scale

bar scale of 3/12 of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 30/06/1802
    (Copy / Lincolns Inn Fields / June 30th 1802

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pricked for transfer on thin llaid paper (570 x 332)

Hand

The office Day Book for Wednesday 30 June 1802 has nothing under Robert Knight but the drawing can be attributed to Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848), pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808

Notes

The south side of the house was extended into the garden and thus would have required new windows to each floor so that this must be the back (garden) elevation and not the front to Grosvenor Square. The elvation is about 29 feet wide, the vertical dimensions are: basement: 9.6, ground floor 11:6, first floor 14:0, second floor 9:9.
The Survey of London, volume XL, The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, 1980, fig.40 is a conjectural reconstruction of the front and side elevations in c. 1820.

Level

Drawing

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