Survey drawings of William Kent's Treasury (2)

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  - London: Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, Whitehall & Downing Street: designs for new offices and scheme for the improvement of Downing Street, 1823-33 (284)
    - Survey drawings of the old Treasury Offices and first designs for new Board of Trade Offices, 1793-September 1823 (17)

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Reference number

SM (1) 50/2/30 (2) 50/2/31

Purpose

Survey drawings of William Kent's Treasury (2)

Aspect

1 Plan of Part of the First Floor of the Treasury 2 Plan of Part of the Mezzanine Floor of the Treasury

Scale

(1, 2) bar scales of 1/12 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

1 as above, labelled (pencil): M^r Arbuthnot, M^r Arbuthnots / Secretary, M^r Lushington, Board Room, Library, M^r Harrison, Long Passage 2 as above, labelled (pencil): M^r W^m Cotton, Library / continued, Custom Room, Paper Room (twice), Board Room, M^r Hoblyn (twice), Bill Room, ------ (illegible) Offices

Medium and dimensions

(1, 2) Pen and grey wash, pricked for transfer with double ruled border on wove paper (357 x 495, 357 x 495)

Hand

unattributed

Watermark

(1) J Whatman 1815

Notes

The Treasury building was designed by William Kent (c.1685-1748) and built 1733-37. The north frontage which looks onto Horse Guards Parade to the left of the sheet is 88 feet wide and the building is 128 feet wide. Access is from the Treasury Passage, which is entered from Whitehall and shown at the top of drawing 1, labelled 'long passage'.
The officials named in the inscriptions are: Charles Arbuthnot (1767-1850) and Stephen Lushington (1776-1868), Joint Secretaries to the Treasury, George Harrison (1767-1841), Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Thomas Hoblyn (1778-1860), Chief Clerk of the Treasury and William Cotton (dates unknown), Senior Clerk of the Treasury. This information and the watermark make the drawings dateable to the period 1815-23.

Level

Drawing

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