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  • image SM 77/3/51

Reference number

SM 77/3/51

Purpose

[29] Working drawing for a cupboard, 23 March 1809

Aspect

Elevation, section and full size details

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

The Right Honble / Lord Hood / Whitley Abbey, labelled Top Cases need not be / prepared for doors, Back to be framed out of Inch deal, Top in separate cases,Top rebate ¾ inch, To range with the top / of the Chimney Piece, Bottom Cases / prepared for doors, Back to be framed out of Inch deal, thickness / of door, A full size, B full size, Rebate, D, and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 23/03/1809
    Copy / L I F / March 23 1809

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and light red washes on wove paper (576 x 672)

Hand

Attributed to George Allen Underwood (1792 - 1829) (assistant September 1807 - May 1815). The office Day Book does not give Underwood for this drawing but it does seeem to be in his hand.

Notes

The built-in cupboard, open at the top and with doors for the bottom 'cases', was perhaps for Lord Hood's room?

Level

drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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