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[12/31] Elevation of the completed design for the courtyard elevation of the south range of Queen Mary's Court, omitting the colonnade on the west side
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Reference number
SM volume 109/38
Purpose
[12/31] Elevation of the completed design for the courtyard elevation of the south range of Queen Mary's Court, omitting the colonnade on the west side
Aspect
Elevation
Scale
10 feet to just under 17/20 inches
Inscribed
In brown ink in unidentified hand, beneath scale bar, South Front in Queen Mary's Court.; and in grey ink with numbering on scale bar; and in C19 hand at top right, 38.
Signed and dated
- Undated, but datable 1735
Medium and dimensions
Pen and grey ink over graphite under-drawing, with grey wash; on laid paper, laid down; 350 x 481
Hand
unidentified hand in office of Thomas Ripley
Watermark
Strasbourg Lily / 4 (same as 109/37)
Notes
The elevation adopts the detailing of the window surrounds and continuous impost course found on the south wall elevation of the chapel, and shown at a preparatory stage in the two large-scale detailed designs, [12/12 and 13]. The other notable change to the design of the south range of King William's Court is in the treatment of the ground floor as a rusticated podium. There is now a clear demarcation, through floor bands and contrasting wall treatment, between this floor and the one above.
Literature
Axel Klausmeier, Thomas Ripley, Architekt: Fallstudie einer Karriere im Royal Office of the King's Works im Zeitalter des Neopalladianismus, Frankfurt am Main, 2000, pp. 113-24, and fig. 27.
Level
Drawing
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