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Design for part of the front, August 1825 (2)
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Reference number
SM (16) 50/5/1 (17) 50/5/8
Purpose
Design for part of the front, August 1825 (2)
Aspect
16 Plan and Elevation of part of the Front of the Foreign Office
17 Plan of entrance, Areas, Skylight and two basement stairs and with (pencil) part-elevation
Scale
(16, 17) bar scales of 1/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
16 as above, Downing Square, Area (twice), Skylight and some dimensions given
17 as above and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- (16) L.I.F. 1825 (17) L.I.F. / August 9th / 1825
Medium and dimensions
(16) Pen, burnt Sienna, sepia, blue, pink and olive green washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (507 x 532) (17) pen, pencil, sepia and blue washes, partly pricked for transfer on wove paper (365 x 528)
Hand
(16, 17) Slade (clerk (measuring), August-October 1825) ('Making Plan of area to Foreign Office at Downing Square and Squaring dimensions &c' - Day Book, 9 August 1825)
Watermark
(16) Smith (the rest cut off)
Notes
The entrance is rather simple so that only the sentry box suggests a government building. Under a plain, bracketed canopy, a panelled, round-headed door with side windows is approached by three steps.
Little is known of the draughtsman, Slade, except that he was employed as a clerk for measuring for a very brief period in 1825.
Little is known of the draughtsman, Slade, except that he was employed as a clerk for measuring for a very brief period in 1825.
Level
Drawing
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