Title
Limehouse Church : Plann of ye Brickworks in ye foundation.
Creator
Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661-1736, artist, architect.
Publication details
[London], [around 1712-1719]
Physical details
1 drawing : pen and brown ink ; sheet 43 x 32.5 cm
Description
A plan in brown ink of a church foundation. Drawn on a scale of eleven feet to an inch. Inscribed with title ink brown ink on verso.
Place
London (England)
Additional information
Kerry Downes suggests that this item and the accompanying seven drawings Maps K.Top.28.11.b-i., might have been part of the sale of Hawksmoor's posessionsin 1740: 'A Catalogue of a curious collection of original pictures, prints, drawings, and brass figures, books, and books of prints, and of Architect, of that well known Architect Nicholas hawksmoor, Esq; deceas'd . . . to be sold at auction' (1740) (S.C.426.(1)), lot 166 'Thity ditto [designs] for Limehouse and Spitlefields Churches by Hawksmoor'. See Downes, Kerry, ''Hawksmoor's Sale Catalogue" in 'The Burlington Magazine', Vol. 95, No. 607 (Oct., 1953), pp. 332-335.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.28.11.b.