Unexecuted design for a canopied equestrian monument to William III, 1702. Five preparatory drawings by Hawksmoor (441-445):
441 - AS IV.72. Quarter plan, drawn to a scale of 2 ft to an inch (drawn scale). An alternative arrangement has been sketched in pencil. Brown ink and pencil. 287 x 378 mm (originally joined to 443). Watermark: CDG. Pencil calculation to L of plan. Inscription: Pillar 20i Diam[eter] and 9 Diam[eter] mak[e]s 15f high (on L); + Linea Piramydis insuper / a Linea Pedastall Equin: / b Linea Pedasta inferior / c Plinthus / d attic Plinth Sup[er] / Cornic attic (in R margin).
442 - AS IV.71. Plan study, drawn to a scale of 2 ft to an inch. The design is close to 441, but with the outer arms of the piers thickened up. Pencil. 442 x 476 mm (in two pasted sheets: L sheet, 435 x 191 mm; R sheet, 442 x 295 mm). Watermark (in both sheets): fleur-de-lis; CDG.
443 - AS IV.71a. Two quarter plan studies, drawn to a scale of 2 ft to an inch (drawn scale). One of the designs is crossed out. Pencil. 259 x 376 mm (originally joined to 441). Watermark: fleur-de-lis. The ruled lines on the back of the sheet agree with 441.
444 - AS IV.73. Plan study, drawn to a slightly larger scale than 441–443. 498 x 684 mm (in two pasted sheets: L sheet, 495 x 370 mm; R sheet, 498 x 325 mm). Watermark (in both sheets): fleur-de-lis; CDG. Endorsed in pencil by an early hand: Monument. A square column has been added to the top L crossing pier.
445 - AS IV.74. Half elevation, corresponding to 444. Pencil. 690 x 270 mm. Watermark: Strasbourg lily WR (lower part only); P.
Note to 441-445: These five drawings, together with a related perspective in the St Paul's collection (Downes 1988, no. 157, verso), were identified in WS 13 as an altar canopy for St Paul's Cathedral. This was to overlook the endorsement on 444 (Monument), however, and the inscription on 441 (which refers to a Linea Pedastall Equin:). Four more drawings came to light in the Bute sale in 1951 (now Victoria and Albert Museum, E399–402, 1951), one of which includes sketches for the equestrian statue itself (E402, 1951: Downes 1959, fig. 10b); another is endorsed Mausolea in honorem Guillemi iij (E399, 1951). They should presumably be associated with the project for an equestrian monument discussed by the Privy Council after William's death in 1702 (HKW 5.455).
[WS 13.xvi–xvii, pls. 31–32; Sekler 1956, 109; Downes 1959, 66, 284; Hart 2002, 144]