Scale
(29-31) bar scales of 3½ inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
29 The Old Jewry
31 (pencil) 4.6, 6.0 and 6.6 high
Signed and dated
- (29) Lincolns Inn Fields / Novr 25th 1817 (30) 18th Decr 1817
Medium and dimensions
(29) Pen, pencil, sepia, raw umber and pink washes, pricked for transfer with sepia wash border on stout wove paper (778 x 627) (30) pen, pencil , pricked for transfer on thin wove paper (709 x 502) (31) pen, pencil, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer, double ruled and sepia wash margin on stout wove paper (756 x 547)
Hand
Henry Parke (1790-1835, pupil 1814-1820) and Edward Foxhall (1793-1862, pupil 1812-1821) from Day Book for 18 December 1817
Notes
An earlier outline ground floor plan (drawing 1) dated October 1817 gives the layout of Mello & Pead's property on the left-hand side. These plans (29-31) show the layout of another property on the righthand side. None of these survey plans describe the centre part of the site but it is likely that were four houses with shops facing on to Old Jewry. These plans also give an indication of other buildings to the east of the site, that is, the New Bank Buildings in Princes Street (q.v.).
Level
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