Design for a new library, committee rooms and clerks' offices (ground floor), 20 June 1821

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Reference number

SM 51/4/5

Purpose

Design for a new library, committee rooms and clerks' offices (ground floor), 20 June 1821

Aspect

Plan of proposed new library, committee rooms, and clerks offices / N^o 1 Ground Floor

Scale

to a scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: Members / Dining / Room, Cellars Under the House of Lords, Staircase / from / the Lobby of the House / of Commons, Ventilation Room, Clerks Office N^o 1, Office N^o 2, Closet / for / Book / Case, Office N^o 3, Office N^o 4, Office N^o 5, Cellars / under / the / Painted / Chamber, Office N^o 6, Office N^o 7, Quadrangle, Office N^o 8, Office N^o 9 and dimensions of offices given

Signed and dated

20 June 1821
20^th June 1821

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer within a double-ruled border on wove paper (534 x 395)

Hand

Adam Lee (c.1772 - 1843)
Office of Works.

Watermark

J Whatman

Notes

The ground floor contains nine offices and a corridor planned around a quadrangle. The room below the existing Long Gallery is divided in two to create two offices.

Level

Drawing

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