Design for the new Privy Council Offices, April 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 (167) 50/1/23

Purpose

Design for the new Privy Council Offices, April 1825

Aspect

167 Plan of the Ground Floor of the New Council Offices &^c

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Entrance Hall, Principal / Staircase, Staircase (twice), Lobby, Water Closet (twice), Entrance Hall / from Downing Street, Staircase, Lobby, Porter, Library and dimensions given

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields / 23^rd April 1825

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (737 x 512)

Hand

Charles James Richardson (1809-71, pupil and assistant 1824-1837)

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt 1820

Notes

Drawing 167 is essentially the same as - and may be a copy of - drawing 146, but with a pavilion on the corner of Whitehall and Downing Street.

Level

Drawing

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