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Rough survey drawings of 11 and 12 Downing Street, undated (2)
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Reference number
SM (15) volume 51/5 (16) volume 51/9
Purpose
Rough survey drawings of 11 and 12 Downing Street, undated (2)
Aspect
15 First floor plan
16 Second floor plan
Inscribed
15 (pencil) Mr Dulanys / House / Downing Sqe, 11 Downing Sqe and dimensions given, (added later by Walter L. Spiers, 1848-1917, curator 1904-17) Mr Dulaney's Hse / Downing Street
16 (pencil) 12 Downing Street, Bed Room and dimensions given, (added later by Walter L. Spiers, 1848-1917, curator 1904-17) 12 Downing Street
Medium and dimensions
(15, 16) Pencil on wove paper (281 x 212, 282 x 207)
Hand
Soane office
Notes
Daniel Dulany occupied 11 Downing Street from 1789 to 1824, when ownership of the property reverted to the Government. The Downing Street front of the houses is at the top on both drawings 15 and 16.
Richard Garnier has dated drawing 16 to 1825, 'preparatory to [Soane's] alterations to the house of that date' and notes 'the cross-vaulted space of square plan giving onto the secondary stairs of No. 12' (R. Garnier, 'Downing Square in the 1770s and 1780s', The Georgian Group Journal, Vol. IX, 1999, p. 143).
Richard Garnier has dated drawing 16 to 1825, 'preparatory to [Soane's] alterations to the house of that date' and notes 'the cross-vaulted space of square plan giving onto the secondary stairs of No. 12' (R. Garnier, 'Downing Square in the 1770s and 1780s', The Georgian Group Journal, Vol. IX, 1999, p. 143).
Level
Drawing
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