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Reference number

SM 51/3/10

Purpose

Copy of a design for new committee rooms as approved, 1826

Aspect

Plan of the Principal Floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/15 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, New Committee Rooms / House of Lords / (Copy of Design as approved), labelled: about 74'6'' / (within 3''), 12'0'', 14'3'', 6'3'', 4'3'', (pencil) 15, 48'0'', 25'9'', equal (twice), 12'0'', 25'9'', 33'6''

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pink and dark pink washes, pricked for transfer on wove paper (305 x 262)

Hand

Soane Office

Watermark

Smith & Allnutt 1823

Notes

The approved design for the principal floor is the same as SM 51/3/8, minus the additions to Black Rod's house. There are three rooms, the largest of which, measuring 48 feet by 25 feet 9 inches, is presumably the main committee room.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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