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Designs for the centre and west (right-hand) side of the Foreign Office, 8, 11 August 1825 (4)
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Reference number
SM (18) 50/5/7 (19) 50/5/2 (20) 50/5/4 (21) 50/5/3
Purpose
Designs for the centre and west (right-hand) side of the Foreign Office, 8, 11 August 1825 (4)
Aspect
18 (Pencil) F.D. [Foreign Department ?] Section of Eating Room &c
19 Part Plan of the Basement
20 Part Plan of the First Floor
21 Part Plan of the Bed Room [floor] and (pencil) part of left-hand house
Scale
(19-21) bar scales of 1/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
18 as above, dimensions given
19 as above, (pencil) Downing Square
20 as above, (pencil) Ceiling / Doors / Pantry & Safe Closet
21 as above, WC (twice)
Signed and dated
- (18) (pencil) 8 Aug. 1825 (19-21) Lincolns Inn Fields / August 11th 1825
Medium and dimensions
(18) Pen, sepia and yellow washes on wove paper (445 x 297) (19-21) pen, sepia, pink and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (372 x 528, 375 x 528, 372 x 528)
Hand
(18) Soane office (19-21) Edward Davis (1802-52, pupil 1824-26)
Watermark
(19, 20) Smith & Allnutt 1823
Notes
The drawings omit the east side of the building, concentrating on the new entrance (drawing 19) that differs on plan from a design made two days earlier (see drawings 16-17) and on the eating room. This, as in previous plans for the first floor, has the addition of two columns, but here the entrance is newly emphasised by another pair of columns (see also drawing 24). On all three plans, thin partition walls have been added to create a passage or (basement) sub-divide an existing room.
Level
Drawing
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