A Rare Victorian Architect’s Site Plan for Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Hanwell 1874 reserved shown on its haunches with

shown on its haunches with a prominent ruff

The Cunard flag has a red field charged with a golden lion rampant guardant which we can see depicted here

The dark forest green painted softwood commode with painted highlights and stenciled gilt tracery detailing having a shaped and beveled edged white marble top over two short drawers and three long displaying the original porcelain knob handles

The front facing section has a wonderful craquelure to the paint

suggests that such items were not actually that common and that it was highly valued

A Rare Victorian Architect’s Site Plan for Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Hanwell 1874 reserved shown on its haunches withOrigin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1874 Height: 34. 5 Width: 53. 5 Compact: 8. 75 wide x 6. 25 high The large and scarce folding architects site plan, in 36 sections, opening from a tooled leather cover inscribed The county of Middlesex Lunatic asylum Hanwell Ground Plan 1874 Henry Martin C. F. Hanwell, in a colour wash and showing the plan of the ground floor with an array of wards, interesting rooms and wings,