Working drawing for window frames, June 1830

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Reference number

SM (85) 56/2/25

Purpose

Working drawing for window frames, June 1830

Aspect

85 Elevations of window frames and sashes

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

This Drawing to be returned / with the Work, N^o 1 Deal case frame with Oak Sunk / Cill and 2 In[ch] D[ea]l Ovlo [sic] Sashes double / hung as B for Porters Room - with wide / inside bead to receive Iron Gaurd (sic) as Agents Room, N^o 4 Deal case frames with Oak / Sunk cills and 2 In D[ea]l Ovlo Sashes / double hung for Servants Hall / Kitchen & Scullery / as p^r Drawing N^o 10, N^o 1 Deal Case frame as last / as p^r Drawing N^o 10 for / Lobby, N^o 1 Deal case frame as last / as p^r Drawing N^o 10 / for Pantry, Sashes & Frame as this for Porters Room, N^o 5 Deal case frames with oak Sunk cills / and 2 In D[ea]l Ovlo Sashes double hung for / One Pair Floor as p^r Drawing N^o 10 and dimensions given

Signed and dated

June 8^th 1830 / Tho^s Heath

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pricked for transfer on wove paper with three fold marks (530 x 650)

Hand

Thomas Heath, clerk of works

Notes

Thomas Heath was instructed by Soane to go to Manchester to superintend the works there on 26 May 1830. The following working drawings were all made by Heath (unless otherwise stated) during the course of the works over the next 9 months.
'Drawing No 10' is a working drawing for door jambs, doors, frames and linings dated April and May 1830. It is catalogued here with a copy (drawings 79 and 80).
Ovolo (spelled 'ovlo' by Heath) is 'a Classical convex moulding, usually a quarter of a circle in profile and sometimes ornamented with egg and dart or similar motifs' (J. Lever and J. Harris, Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, 800-1914, 1993).

Level

Drawing

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