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Archivistische beschrijving
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Draft of a letter

Draft of a letter:

  • pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 28.3 x 8.0 cm
  • [text]:

'My Lord Duke
I inclose according to your request
the three italian drawings and three 2
modifications of three designs as well as / and one as a substitute for the arched chimney piece
a drawing of the chimney piece at Syon
with its modification. If your Grace
approves of Syon modification and you / of any of them(?) the working the working drawings could be made either here or in Rome from / the sketches sufficiently indicate the design / the small drawings
desire to send to Italy a cast of the / the details

new(?) figure of the boy and the mouldings
I would be undertake superintending the casting
of the boy and the mouldings'

Design for a ceiling

Design for a ceiling:

  • inked pencil sketch with watercolour (green and orange) on paper
  • loose
  • 7.3 x 11.4 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Design for a Ceiling' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'LONDON W.C / E 0 / AP 18 / 74' (ink stamp)

Letter (continuation)

Letter (continuation):
-ink text on paper
-loose
-11.5 x 18.5 cm
-[text]
'the reverse is the figure
of the Apteryx and a Wreath
to be composed of the plants
indigenous to the country.'

Fragment of letter

Fragment of letter:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 6.4 x 3.3 cm
  • [text]:
    '... good meat and (?) (?)
    ... wise the day before their
    ... [ex]cellent cold roast beef whether
    ...arked difference in the quality
    ...(?) (?) (?) a letter (?)'

Head studies with helmet and hat

Head studies with helmet and hat:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • loose
  • 6.1 x 13.6 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Man dancing and playing harp / as David' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] '(?) / do to / this / day' (pencil note)

Note

Note:

  • pencil and brown pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 6.1 x 13.6 cm
  • [pencil text]: 'Psametechus statue / of Fetu(?) menophis(?) / (?) whether head / or (?)'
  • [pencil text]: '11 10 / 1 20 / 4 15 / 5 30 / 8 30'
  • [brown pencil text]: '20 / 1 / (?)'

Frieze design featuring seated nude warrior (perhaps Ares) with spears and shield, seated woman (perhaps Aphrodite), nude ephebe in Phrygian cap, and female servant with jug and cup

Frieze design featuring seated nude warrior (perhaps Ares) with spears and shield, seated woman (perhaps Aphrodite), nude ephebe in Phrygian cap, and female servant with jug and cup:

  • pencil drawing with ink (brown) wash on paper
  • loose
  • 47.7 x 25.4 cm

Sketches of funerary memorials with female figures

Sketches of funerary memorials with female figures:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • loose
  • 28.0 x 20.4 cm
  • [on sketch] 'D D / Will you do me the favour to present to the institution / of British Architects a cast / a copy of the obelisk of Karnak / I beg to present to the institute of B architects a cast from copy of / copy of the obelisk of Karnak cast from a slate one from one executed for / Ld Prudhoe. it is I hope as an architectural decoration it may' (pencil note)
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