[1] Sketch design

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  - Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire): alterations and additions for W.H.Fellowes, 1804-07 (60)
    - Initial plans for ground floor, 12-19 May 1804 (6)

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Reference number

SM 46/5/26

Purpose

[1] Sketch design

Aspect

Sketch of a design for the alterations & additions to Ramsey Abbey

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

W.H.Williams Esq^re, labelled Library, Draw^g Room, Breakfast^g / R[oom], Eating Room, Cloist[er] (twice), Clos[et] and Dress^g / room

Signed and dated

12/05/1804
12 May 1804

Medium and dimensions

Pen, brown pen, sepia and light red washes, pencil, double ruled border, pricked for transfe,r on wove paper (505 x 726)

Hand

Sir John Soane RA (1753 - 1837)
It is assumed that the brown pen additions are by Soane over a drawing by an office hand.

Notes

Soane, it seems, added the entrance porch, the stairs and (the hatched in) eating room as well as the room labels. There is some slight pencil drawing of a part elevation and of trees. Soane's entrance porch (to a later design) was placed on the north side of the house.

Level

Drawing

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