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[2] Design for the ground floor of a new Parliament House
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Reference number
SM 36/2/9
Purpose
[2] Design for the ground floor of a new Parliament House
Aspect
Ground floor plan
Scale
bar scale of 5/9 inch to 10 feet
Signed and dated
- 1733
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper with one fold mark (491 x 735)
Hand
William Kent (1685 - 1748)
Watermark
fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche / 4 = IV
Notes
The building is essentially rectangluar, measuring 444 feet by 240 feet at its greatest extents. The building has six points of access: one from the river front; one beneath the House of Lords; one beneath the House of Commons; and three from Old Palace Yard, the central of which is a foot entrance and the outer two carriage entrances. Two oval spiral staircases at the centre of the plan provide access to the piano nobile, as do the two grand staircases adjacent to the carriage entrances and the spiral staircases (for servants) nearby.
Salmon draws an association between this drawing with a plan of the first floor (V&A 3518.1; Salmon, fig. 13.21) and an elevation (V&A 3518.10; Salmon, fig. 13.20), although he does acknowledge the differences between the plan and elevation designs.
(Salmon, pp. 332-34)
Salmon draws an association between this drawing with a plan of the first floor (V&A 3518.1; Salmon, fig. 13.21) and an elevation (V&A 3518.10; Salmon, fig. 13.20), although he does acknowledge the differences between the plan and elevation designs.
(Salmon, pp. 332-34)
Level
Drawing
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