Design for the Downing Street elevation, March 1825

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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)
    - Designs for the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices and preliminary designs for the new Home Office, January-September 1825 (60)

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Reference number

SM (139) 49/4/6

Purpose

Design for the Downing Street elevation, March 1825

Aspect

139 Sketch of a Design for the Front next Downing Street; (verso) unidentified part plan and unfinished elevation of Privy Council Offices

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, New Council Offices &^c, Mem[orandum] - 7^th March 1825 - The parts AAA settled by the Chancellor of the / Exchequer to be executed in Stone, labelled: A (5 times) and (pencil) some calculations

Signed and dated

March 1825 and as above ('7^th March 1825')

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and yellow ochre washes, (verso) pen, pencil, pink and sepia washes, pricked for transfer on one sheet of wove and one sheet of laid paper, affixed, with one fold mark (370 x 912)

Hand

David Mocatta (1806-82, pupil 1821-27)

Notes

Drawing 139 presumably showed the Downing Street frontage up to the end of the Privy Council Chamber before a further seven bays of the elevation were added on another sheet of paper. The drawing has two variant designs for the attic over the end bays which are similar in appearance but differ in proportions. The rusticated courses on the ground floor were 'settled to be executed in stone' by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The verso has part of a design for alterations to an unidentified building with a spiral staircase and an unfinished elevation of part of the Privy Council offices.

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