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[11/8] Plan of the first (Second) floor of King Charles II Court, illustrating the layout of cabins
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Reference number
SM volume 109/16
Purpose
[11/8] Plan of the first (Second) floor of King Charles II Court, illustrating the layout of cabins
Aspect
First-floor plan
Scale
20 feet to 1 inch
Inscribed
In ink at top centre, King Charles 2:d Court, and below to right, The Second Floor; and with numbered scale bar; and at top right (top left of volume), 16.
Signed and dated
- Undated, but datable 1727-28
Medium and dimensions
Pen and grey ink over graphite under-drawing, with grey wash; brown ink for titles, and for the inner staircases on the plan on laid paper,laid down. 500 x 370.
Hand
Unidentified hand, possibly that of John James
Watermark
Strasbourg Lily / LVG
Notes
This drawing is correctly placed before 109/15 in the volume ([11/7]), but numbered 109/16, even though it is for the first floor of the building (Second Floor in 18th-century parlance), beneath the attic (Mezzanine). The nineteenth century indexer probably mistook 'mezzanine' for the floor above between the ground and first floors. The drawing is closely based on a plan by Hawksmoor in the National Maritime Museum (Wren Society, VI, pl. 19, top right).
Literature
Not in Wren Society
Level
Drawing
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