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387 - AS IV.101    (click to view in Digital Bodleian)

387 - AS IV.101. Ink sketch of a dial, drawn by Wren. Brown ink. 148 x 223 mm. No watermark. Endorsed in ink by Wren: at Mrs Harmans gunsmiths shop next to the Dog & Bull in ye Strand.

Note to 387: Mrs Harman was very likely Elizabeth Hardman (Hardeman), 'Widow of Matthew. Gunmakers Co. stopped her proof for selling pistols to an alien (Bartholomew Lemaire), 1684; seized 6ft. barrel with her mark at Andrew Dolep's shop, 1685' (Blackmore 1986).