Design for 'the Houses of both sides of the intended Street to extend in a right line from the Mansion-House to More-Gate humbly proposed to consideration'
Date:
1762
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on slightly textured, medium, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 5/16 x 20 7/8 inches (18.6 x 53 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper center: "An Elevation for the Houses of both sides of the Intended Street to extend in a right line | from the MANSION-HOUSE to More-Gate | humbly proposed for consideration"; in pen and black ink, upper right: "Design I"; in pen and black ink, far right: "NB The extent from | Lothbury to the Poultry was taken | by Scale upon Roque's Map | of London in a | Right line: | would it not be proper | to begin at this End | of the Intended | Street as it would | open upon the Mansion | House and thereby shew at once the Elegance | Utility, & Convenience of this Design"; in pen and black ink, right: "Lothbury;" at immediate left of design: "to | the | Poultry"; in pen and black ink, lower center, bar scale given; in pen and black ink, lower left: "Portico Flat Pavement and | The New Street"; in pen and black ink, lower right: "NB for the Plans, see the designs II & III | XXXX | shew the situations of the doors as altered | in the Designs at large"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1998.19.1
Classification:
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 141, no. 119, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)