[33] Working drawing for a hot house, June 1789

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  - Tendring Hall, Suffolk: (executed) house for Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, 1783-1789 (55)

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Reference number

SM 8/3/11

Purpose

[33] Working drawing for a hot house, June 1789

Aspect

Plan, Elevation and Section of Hot house and Shed

Scale

bar scale of 3/16 inch to 1 foot (approximately)

Inscribed

as above, Tendring Hall, level of Floor, line of Garden Wall, This part only / to be Sunk and (verso) 7^th June 1788 (sic) Lodder waited on S^rJoshua Rowley / with this Drawing which he / approved of

Signed and dated

Welbeck Street 5^thJune 1789 - the verso is dated 7 June 1788

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light red, blue, burnt umber, yellow and green washes, pricked for transfer within single ruled border on thin laid paper with recent repairs to edges (467 x 367)

Hand

John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)

Notes

Sanders's drawing for a hot house is a handed version of the earlier design for a pinery (SM 8/3/38) and with the same dimensions. The 'Lodder' inscribed on the verso was the builder, see note to SM 28/2/16. Soane's account book (SM 'Journal N^o1', opposite p.75) has an entry for 3 June 1789 'sent Swan drawings of Hothouses' and (7 June) 'Lodder called on Sir J. with a drawing / of the Hothouse w^hhe approved'.

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Drawing

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