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[209] Working drawing, 26 May 1818
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Reference number
SM 67/4/9
Purpose
[209] Working drawing, 26 May 1818
Aspect
Elevation of Cornice belonging to / the Secretary's new Office, Chelsea
Inscribed
as above, labelled Wall, Cornice, Brick Wall and some dimensions given (verso) Sir / In answer to the and further illegible writing (as if practising hand writing)
Signed and dated
- 26th. May - 1818 / A Mee
Hand
A.P. Mee (1802-1868, pupil 1818-1823)
Watermark
1816
Notes
The upper detail of this drawing relates to the cornice of the central building, as built. The lower of the two drawings does not appear to correspond to any part of the cornice but may be an alternative design, or may be a design for a pier-cap for an attached wall that no longer survives. On the other side of the hospital, next to the Surgeon's House, there are piers crowned by canopy dome caps incised with triangular-pediment shapes. Soane may have designed similar pier caps for the area surrounding the Secretary's Offices.
Level
Drawing
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