Working drawing for the Privy Council Offices, September 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 (183) 49/2/12

Purpose

Working drawing for the Privy Council Offices, September 1825

Aspect

183 Plan of the Attics; (verso) rough plan of the attics

Scale

bar scale of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, New Council Offices &^c, labelled: Hall Door Board of Trade and (pencil) dimensions given

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields / Sep^r 1825

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink, blue and yellow ochre washes, (verso) pencil, pricked for transfer on wove paper (707 x 525)

Hand

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

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt 1823

Notes

The attic storey, as shown in drawing 183, is only one room deep. The upper part of the Council Chamber (a double-height room) is in the attic storey.

Level

Drawing

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