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Reference number
SM volume 42/4
Purpose
Sketch design
Aspect
Details of underpinning for a canted bay
Inscribed
(Soane) Recd of Sir W.C. Octr 7.1793
Signed and dated
- as above ( 7 October 1793)
Medium and dimensions
Brown pen on laid paper, pricked for transfer with four fold marks (97 x 209)
Hand
Sir William Chambers (1723-96)
Watermark
n/a pasted down
Notes
It is interesting that this rapidly drawn detail of Chambers's foundation design was important enough to have been copied; the size of the pin holes suggest that this was the original drawing rather than a copy. The drawing appears to be a plan of a canted bay (probably with a window) and its underpinning. The 'Minutes & Proceedings Jany 1793 to Decr 1799 Vol 18' (National Archives Work 4/18) for 20 September 1793 records the business of 'the Bow of the house intended to be used as a Secretary of States office ... to be taken down - and Sir Wm Chambers having in consequence survey'd the Same [suggested] that the said Bow might be repaired without taking down and at much less expense'. The house was 'Lord Sheffields late house in Downing Square' (elsewhere in the Minutes described as in Downing Street) and the repair was agreed on 27 September, and work was proceeding on 11 October 1793. See also note to following drawing SM volume 42/5
Level
Drawing
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