439 - AS IV.60. Elevation of an unidentified public building, bearing the inscription GVL.R. BASILICA.P.IVS.V. Drawn by Hawksmoor. Brown ink over pencil, shaded with grey wash. Watermark: fleur-de-lis; CDG. On verso: illegible pencil inscription (cropped).
Note to 439: The inscription is presumably Gulielmus rex basilicam posui iussit volens ('King William gladly ordered this hall to be built'). The drawing can therefore be dated to 1694–1702. The design has been associated with Greenwich, where Hawksmoor was ordered to 'prepare a scheme and estimate of a Market House' in November 1700 (WS 6.41, 42, 46, 53; WS 12.20). The treatment of the roof is consistent with Hawksmoor's architectural vocabulary at this time (compare his unexecuted design for Wotton House, reproduced in Harris 1985, 108–09).
[WS 12, pl. 30, bottom; Downes 1959, 88 and cat. no. 391]