Survey drawing of the attics of the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, May 1833

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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 (283) 49/2/6

Purpose

Survey drawing of the attics of the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, May 1833

Aspect

283 Plan of Attics to Council Office & Board of Trade

Scale

bar scale of 1/12 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Office Keeper Council Office, House Keeper B[oar]^d of Trade, Office Keeper B[oar]^d of Trade, Partition / Put up by / Office Keeper, This Room / In Possession / of Home / Department / (Unfinished), Upper Part of Board Room, Staircase, House Keeper Council Office, House Keeper, Sink, Upper Part of Council Chamber

Signed and dated

May 7^th 1833

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and blue washes on tracing paper (219 x 448)

Hand

George Bailey (1792-1860, pupil then assistant 1806-37, curator 1837-60)

Notes

A rare example of the use of tracing paper in the Soane office, drawing 283 shows the attic storey of the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices as executed. The long gap between this and the last drawing for the Board of Trade is unexplained. In the National Archives are four copies of plans of the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices, all signed by Soane and dated '1833' (WORK 30/319-22).

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Drawing

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