Working drawings for the attic windows and cornice, June 1831 (2)

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Office of Works
  - London: New State Paper Office, Duke Street, Westminster, 1829-34 (207)

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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.

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