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Survey drawings and details of the old Board of Trade Offices and Board Room, September 1823 (9)
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Reference number
SM (9) volume 61/118 (10) volume 61/120 (11) volume 61/121 (12) 50/2/28 (13) 50/2/29 (14) 50/2/12 (15) volume 61/119 (16) 50/2/10 (17) 50/2/27
Purpose
Survey drawings and details of the old Board of Trade Offices and Board Room, September 1823 (9)
Aspect
9 Perspective View of the Board of Trade Office
10 Plan & Section of the Ceiling of the Board Room
11 Details of Ceiling &c in the Board Room
12 Plan and Section of the Ceiling of the Board Room in the Old Board of Trade Offices at Whitehall taken down in 1824
13 Plan and Section of Ceiling in One of the Rooms of the Old Board of Trade Offices taken down in 1824
14 Section of the Ceiling of the Board Room in the Old Board of Trade Offices Whitehall taken down in 1824
15 Interior perspective View of the Board Room
16 Composite drawing with View of the Board of Trade Whitehall, View of the Board Room and Sections of the Board Room
17 Details of Parts of the chimney-piece and Plan and parts at large of the ceiling in the Board Room at the Board of Trade Whitehall
Scale
(14) bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot (16) bar scale of 3/8 inch to 1 foot (17) bar scales of 3/8 inch to 1 foot and 3 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
9 as above and vertical dimensions given
10 as above, Old Board of Trade Offices and dimensions given
11 as above, Old Board of Trade Offices and dimensions given
12 as above, labelled: Centre to Short radius, Centre to Long / Radius, Level of Block Cornice under Side, Level of Block cornice, Length 22ft 9in and dimensions given
13 as above and dimensions given
14 as above, (pencil) Radius of Long Line and dimensions given
15 as above and vertical dimensions given
16 as above and vertical dimensions given
17 as above and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- (9) 30th Augt / 1823 (10, 11) 2d Sepr 1823 (15) 3rd Sepr / 1823 (16, 17) Septr 1823
Medium and dimensions
(9) Pen, burnt Sienna, sepia, yellow ochre and blue-grey washes with black wash border on wove paper (250 x 354) (10, 11) pencil on wove paper (280 x 360, 280 x 360) (12, 13) pen and grey wash, pricked for transfer on wove paper with one fold mark (440 x 590, 496 x 595) (14) pen and grey wash on wove paper with one fold mark (438 x 632) (15) pen, grey, brown madder, raw Sienna and black washes with quadruple ruled and black wash border on wove paper (247 x 355) (16, 17) pen, burnt Sienna, sepia, yellow ochre and blue-grey washes with triple ruled and black wash border on wove paper (612 x 724, 620 x 725)
Hand
(9-17) Charles Edward Papendiek (1801-35, pupil 1818-24)
Watermark
(12, 13) 1820 (16) James Whatman (17) Turkey Mill Kent
Notes
The old Board Room is located on the first floor of the block labelled 'Board of Trade' on drawing 5. The window shown on drawing 16 is the same as the large window second to the right on the first floor shown on drawing 9. The dimensions of the room are 22 feet 7 inches by 16 feet 6 inches. The room has several notable features which survive from the house of the Duke and Duchess of Monmouth. These include an ornate chimneypiece and a coved ceiling with a central dome decorated with wreaths and foliage with the initials JAMB (James and Anne, Duke and Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch) and ducal coronets, of which a plaster cast was taken and can be seen in Sir John Soane's Museum (M34). Soane intended to preserve the ceiling and parts of it were reused in the new Board Room.
A drawing by Thomas Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin of the old Board Room was included in Rudolph Ackermann's Microcosm of London (3 volumes, 1808-11).
A drawing by Thomas Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin of the old Board Room was included in Rudolph Ackermann's Microcosm of London (3 volumes, 1808-11).
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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