[6] Design No3 for alterations and additions: first floor plan

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  - Little Green, Sussex: unexecuted alternative designs for alterations and additions, and for a new house, for Thomas P.Phipps, 1795-6 (9)

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Reference number

SM 46/3/7

Purpose

[6] Design No3 for alterations and additions: first floor plan

Aspect

The Plan of the Chamber Floor

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Thomas Peckham Phipps Esq^r, N^o 3, rooms labelled: Lady's Dressing Room, Bookcase / &c (twice), Dressing Room, Best Staircase, Archway, Occasional Chamber / & / Dressing Room, Chamber, Dressing Room,Corridor and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

Lincolns Inn Fields March 15: 1796

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and Indian red washes, partly pricked for transfer, with quadruple ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper with one fold mark (475 x 658)

Hand

Thomas Jeans (c.1775-1866) pupil August 1792-25 August 1797

Watermark

J Whatman 1794 fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, ornate W

Notes

A plan for the ground floor is lacking. The first floor plan has some small changes from drawings [3] and [5] so that, for example, top lighting is suggested for a dressing room and a lobby, and book cases are introduced to the lady's dressing room.

Level

Drawing

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