Ground floor plan of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire with different colours used to denote different phases of building work
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME)
Category
Architecture / Drawings
Date
May 1950
Materials
Pen, ink, pencil and coloured wash
Measurements
550 x 1470 mm
Place of origin
Cambridge
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 206302.1
Summary
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME). Ground floor plan of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire with different colours used to denote different phases of building work, May 1950, inscribed 'WIMPOLE HALL / CAMBRIDGESHIRE', 'ROYAL COMMISSION ON/ HISTORICAL MONUMENTS / (ENGLAND) / 20 STATION RD, CAMBRIDGE / MAY 1950' key given, mechanical reproduction [?blueprint] with six colour washes with extra section pasted onto right hand margin (550 x 1470mm)
Provenance
Bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 – 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3000 acres.
Marks and inscriptions
Top, centre: WIMPOLE HALL / CAMBRIDGESHIRE Bottom right: 'ROYAL COMMISSION ON/ HISTORICAL MONUMENTS / (ENGLAND) / 20 STATION RD, CAMBRIDGE / MAY 1950'
Makers and roles
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), draughtsman