Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace - apparently a rejected design for its transformation at the time Nash was preparing his plans to transform the old Queen's House (which went to the Commons in June 1825). The initials J C H at the bottom left but evidence for the date 1824 (on card index) is not on the drawing. The design is more elaborate than Nash's (see A8087) with an extra storey, different shape windows, more decoration, a statue of the king on a monument roughly where the Marble Arch was later placed, etc. It may be a rejected plan by Nash or someone else for complete rebuilding of the palace, such as was briefly considered at the time. Negative no. 7740.