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

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- Adam Lee: Westminster, London: surveys and designs for the Palace of Westminster, 1808-23 (9)
  - Designs for a new library, committee rooms and clerks' offices for the House of Commons, June 1821 (copied June 1825) (7)

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Reference number

SM 51/4/7

Purpose

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

Aspect

N^o 3 Plan of Two Pair Floor

Scale

(pencil) bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled: House / of / Commons, Committee / Room / N^o 3, D^o N^o 4, D^o N^o 5, D^o N^o 6, D^o N^o 7, D^o N^o 8, D^o N^o 9, Painted / Chamber and dimensions of committee rooms given

Signed and dated

June 1821

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer within a double-ruled border on wove paper (531 x 403)

Hand

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

Notes

The two pair floor contains seven committee rooms, of which two are above the Long Gallery.

Level

Drawing

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