Design and working drawing for the Downing Street frontage, January 1826 (2)

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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 new government buildings on Whitehall and the completion of Downing Street with a Triumphal Arch, December 1825-May 1833 (100)

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Reference number

SM (198) 49/4/4 (199) 49/1/15

Purpose

Design and working drawing for the Downing Street frontage, January 1826 (2)

Aspect

198 Elevation of the Front next Downing Street 199 Elevation of part of the New Council Offices next Downing Street and section through wall

Scale

(198, 199) bar scales of 1/6 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

198 as above, New Council Offices &c, labelled: 3'6'' 199 as above, labelled: The Heights to be taken from / the present Building, Plinth, This fascia to be the width of the Cap Mouldings of Pedestals and dimensions given

Signed and dated

(198) Lincolns Inn Fields / January 1826

Medium and dimensions

(198) Pen, yellow ochre, sepia and blue washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (374 x 645) (199) pen, sepia, light red and burnt Sienna washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper with three fold marks (287 x 400)

Hand

(198) Charles James Richardson (1809-71, pupil and assistant 1824-1837) (199) Stephen Burchell (1806-?, pupil 1823-28)

Watermark

(198) J Whatman 1825 (199) fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate JW

Notes

In comparison with an earlier design for the Downing Street frontage (drawing 148), on drawing 198 the entrance to the Privy Council Offices is to the left (west) of the colonnade and the attic over the leftmost four bays is higher so that it matches the height of the pavilion attic. The balustrade has been removed from the attic storey and the western part of the frontage is no longer rusticated. The attic over the pavilion is set back behind a balustrade, rather than being flush with the frontage.

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