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[10] Design for ceiling
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Reference number
SM 33/3/B31
Purpose
[10] Design for ceiling
Aspect
Plan pf a Quarter of the Ceiling of the New Library and details of profiles
Scale
full size
Inscribed
as above, The Marquis of Buckingham Stowe, Plan above the Capital Showing the Spring , line of ----, I, II, III, A, Impost Molding, Wood Bead, Impost Moldg, Plain Sunk Pannel and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 08/11/1805
Nov. 8 1805
Medium and dimensions
Pen, some pencil, partly pricked for transfer, on stout wove paper (525 x 740)
Hand
The office Day Book for 15 March 1805 has Malton and Seward working on drawings for Stowe, that is Charles Malton (1788-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809) and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808)
Notes
Slight detail of ceiling on verso
Level
Drawing
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