[19] Variant design for the elevation

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Town houses
  - London: Fountain Court, Aldermanbury: surveys and designs for a new counting house for William Adair Jackson Esq. and Messrs Peters & Co, 1798-1805 (25)

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Reference number

SM 40/4/2

Purpose

[19] Variant design for the elevation

Aspect

The Elevation

Scale

bar scale of 2/7 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, William Adair Jackson Esq^r / Fountain Court, N^o 2, labelled: 10.0, 1.0, 10.0, 1.6, 9.0

Signed and dated

12 July 1804
Lincolns Inn Fields 12^th July 1804

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pink and yellow ochre washes, pricked for transfer with triple ruled sepia wash border on wove paper (505 x 688)

Hand

Charles Malton (1788)
Pupil February 1802 - December 1809.

Watermark

1801 / J Whatman

Notes

In this design the elevation is seven bays wide but the building has only two storeys above a raised basement and no attic (cf. drawing [18]). The building is surmounted with a balustrade and has as a central feature a scrolled acroterion on top of a pedestal with a swag relief in a panel.

Level

Drawing

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