These four drawings for cornices and entablatures (110/58, 59, 60 and 62) appear to be preliminary designs for the principal cornices and entablatures of the main rooms of the Privy Garden range. All four are identical in technique and are likely to date near to the early stages of design work for interiors at Hampton Court. They cannot be later than 1694, as 4 (110/62) bears the WM monogram, thus pre-dating Queen's Mary's death in late December that year. The grey-wash technique has affinities with that on the group of five designs for chimney-pieces which, as noted above in 6/1, appears to be earlier than that of the the main group of colour-washed designs. Moreover, this drawing and 110/60 are on identically watermarked paper to 110/32 (ornamental Fleur de Lys over 4WR, with triple lobe motif for the intermediate floret of the crown).

The staining patterns on the drawings provides clues to their grouping before the contents of the volume were reordered, prior to Dance's numbering of the sheets before he gave the volume to Soane in 1817. The staining pattern on 2 (110/59) closely matches that on Hawksmoor's two drawings for the bridge link between Queen's Mary's closet and the Privy Garden in September 1694 (section 5/1, nos. 2, 3; 110/20 and 21). The patterning on these two drawings be connected, in turn, with the staining on Hawksmoor's large-scale elevations for the principal fronts in 1689 (section 4 no. 1; 110/8) and his design for the grotto in the Orangery (section 5 no. 3; 110/17). This demonstrates that Gibbons's drawings and Hawksmoor's were together in the same volume at the time the staining occurred.