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THE WHITEHALL DRAWINGS 



FlG. 38. Plan of the Old Banqueting House which was 

 burnt down. Below is an Elevation of " The First 

 Storye of the Newe Banketinge house." 



From the Smithson Collection. 



drawings serves further to dissociate him from them. At 

 Worcester College are the finished drawings for the scheme 

 published by Kent : but in addition to those which he used 

 are others which have not hitherto been elucidated ; some 

 of them are, in fact, the elevations and sections of a different 

 scheme, while one is the isolated plan of a third. The key to 

 this part of the puzzle lies at Chatsworth in the shape of the 

 collection of drawings and sketches, bound together and entitled 

 " Designs for Whitehall." These turn out to be almost entirely 

 the work of Webb, among them being, however, the drawings 

 of the Banqueting House by Jones himself. The drawings by 

 Webb are the preliminary sketches for the finished set at 

 Worcester College, as well as some for yet other schemes, and 



