[30] Working drawing for lodges, January 1785

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Reference number

SM 64/3/102

Purpose

[30] Working drawing for lodges, January 1785

Aspect

The Plan / of the Kitchen Garden, The Plan of the Lodges and The Elevation of the Lodges

Scale

bar scales of 1/26 inch to 10 feet and 1/7 inch to one foot

Inscribed

as above, labelled Stable Court and (lodge) 12 feet

Signed and dated

(Soane) Margaret Street, Jan:^ry1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia wash, pencil, shading within double ruled border on laid paper (560 x 438)

Hand

Robert Baldwin (fl.1762-c.1804)/ Soane pencil additions

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, ornate W

Notes

This drawing differs hardly at all from an earlier drawing for twin lodges (SM 28/3/4) also by Baldwin, datable to May 1784. The pencil additions of a tree, base mouldings, finials to gate piers and the surprising suggestion for a rectangular hood-mould over a round-arched window within a round-headed blind arch were presumably added by Soane. The plan of the kitchen garden remains 180 feet by 360 feet as in SM 28/3/5 though the larger side is transverse rather than longitudinal and part of the stable court now projects into the garden.

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Drawing

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