[2] Design for basement floor

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Glasgow: 6 Buchanan Street for Robert Dennistoun, 1798-1800 (35)
    - Designs, December 1798 (19)

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Reference number

SM 2/8/26

Purpose

[2] Design for basement floor

Aspect

The Plan of the Basement Story and (feint pencil) plan of offices on lefthand side

Scale

bar scale of ¼ inch to1 foot

Inscribed

as above, N^o 1, rooms labelled Servants Hall, Housekeeper, Wine Cellar, Staircase, Lobby, Closet, Closet, The Kitchen, Stoves, Laundry, Extends 57 feet 10½ and dimensions given with some (pencil) calculations

Signed and dated

17/12/1798
Dec^r 17 1798

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and red wash, pricked for transfer, with quadruple ruled and black wash border on laid paper (515 x 700)

Hand

Attributed to Henry Hake Seward (1778 - 1848)
Pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808. Nothing in the Soane office Day Book for 17 December 1798.

Watermark

I Taylor, fleur de lis within crowned cartouche and below, GR / 1794

Notes

There are windows at back (west) and front (east), a front and side entrance (both 3 feet 9 inches wide), and basically four large rooms, together with a cellar and lobby and a geometrical stair. Outlined in pencil is an area on the left-hand (south) side that runs from front to back and is almost fifteen feet wide.

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