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Designs for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, February 1824 (5)
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Reference number
SM (38) 50/2/33 (39) 50/2/26 (40) 50/2/32 (41) 50/2/35 (42) 50/2/34
Purpose
Designs for new Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, February 1824 (5)
Aspect
38 Plan of the Ground Floor
39 Plan of the Principal Floor
40 Plan of the Ground Floor
41 Plan of the Principal Floor
42 Plan of the Ground Floor
Scale
(38-42) bar scales of 1/12 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
38 as above, Design No 1 / A, labelled: Whitehall, King Street, Downing Street, Proposed New Building for / the Board of Trade &c, Staircase leading / to the Treasury, The Chancellor of the Exchequer
39 as above, Design No 1 / B, labelled: Whitehall, King Street, Downing Street, Proposed New Building / for the Board of Trade &c, Office Keeper, Mr Hicks, Mr Wood, Waiting Room, Mr Peel, Lobby, Military Room, Mr Dawson, Mr Hobhouse, Clerks Office, Treasury / Staircase and (pencil) some dimensions given
40 as above, Design No 2 / A, labelled: Whitehall, King Street, Downing Street, Proposed New Building for / the Board of Trade &c,Staircase leading / to the Treasury, The Chancellor of the Exchequer
41 as above, Design No 2 / B, labelled: Whitehall, King Street, Downing Street, Proposed New Building for / the Board of Trade &c, Office Keeper, Mr Hicks, Mr Wood, Waiting Room, Mr Peel, Lobby, Military Room, Mr Dawson, Mr Hobhouse, Clerks Office, Staircase leading / to the Treasury
42 as above, Design No 3, labelled: Whitehall, King Street, Downing Street, Proposed New Board of Trade Offices, The Home Department, Sir Richard Birnie, Mr Day, Housekeeper's / Kitchen, Area, Treasury Passage, Messenger's Rooms / Commissariat Dept, Area, Mr Peel, Mr Dawson, Mr Hobhouse, Area, Staircase leading / to the Treasury
Signed and dated
- (38, 41) February 1824 (39, 42) February / 1824 (40) Lincolns Inn Fields / February 1824
Medium and dimensions
(38-42) Pen, sepia, pink, black, grey, blue and yellow washes, pricked for transfer with triple ruled grey and black wash border on wove paper (615 x 940, 532 x 864, 614 x 942, 533 x 860, 532 x 870)
Hand
(38-42) Charles Edward Papendiek (1801-35, pupil 1818-24)
Watermark
(38) J Whatman 1822
Notes
Drawings 38-42 show designs for the new Privy Council Offices on the site of the old Council Chamber, to the west of the Board of Trade (q.v. drawings 3-5). Drawings 38, 39 and 42 show a building with rooms built around a central corridor that ends with a geometrical staircase. In drawings 40 and 41 the building is narrower with the corridor on the west side ending with an open-newel staircase. Offices in the Home Department (to the right of the drawings) include those of the Home Secretary, Robert Peel (1788-1850), and Sir Richard Birnie (c.1760-1832), a police magistrate famous for his role in the arrest of the Cato Street conspirators.
Level
Drawing
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