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Working drawings for the attic windows and cornice, June 1831 (2)
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Reference number
SM (128) 82/2/25 (129) 82/2/13
Purpose
Working drawings for the attic windows and cornice, June 1831 (2)
Aspect
128 Section through attic window and cornice
129 Detail of the cornice
Scale
(128, 129) bar scales of 2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
128 (in Soane's hand) final 3.2.7 / ded 9 / 2.13.7, Inside face of wall, Centre of Wall, Thursday 16 June / Final and dimensions given
129 New State Paper Office, labelled: One Stone / 13 July and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- June 1831
(128) 15th June 1831 and (in Soane's hand) Thursday / 16 June 1831 (129) (in Soane's hand) 16 June 1831
Medium and dimensions
(128) Pen, burnt Sienna, grey and yellow washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (531 x 331) (129) pen, yellow ochre and grey washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (532 x 411)
Hand
(128, 129) Charles James Richardson (1809-71, pupil and assistant 1824-1837)
Watermark
(128) Smith & Allnutt 1830
Notes
The attic windows are 2 feet 3 inches tall. The cills on the inside of the building are steeply sloped to admit more light through what are very small apertures. The 'pantiled' slope shown in previous designs (drawing 101, for example) has been replaced with a steeper slope of the same stone as the cornice.
Level
Drawing
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