[23] Design for entrance elevation with semicircular Ionic portico

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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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  - Combe House, Gittisham, Honiton, Devonshire: designs for alterations and additions, 1805-1808 and designs for a new house,1811 for Reymundo Putt, 1805-1811 (40 )
    - Designs for a new house, November-December, 1811 (21)
      - Design for a new house, with Ionic order (dated November 1811)

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Reference number

SM 35/4/6

Purpose

[23] Design for entrance elevation with semicircular Ionic portico

Aspect

View of a design for the Entrance Front / of proposed Mansion and (verso) rough pencil part-elevation and plan

Inscribed

as above, Reymundo Putt Esq^re

Signed and dated

00/11/1811
Nov^r 1811

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia washes, shaded, pricked for transfer, on wove paper (327 x 469)

Hand

George Basevi (1794 - 1845)
Pupil December 1810 - June 1816.

Notes

Either side of the portico (with its semicircular plan) is a projecting pedimented bay with a tall, arched recess housing a window framed by a pediment and Ionic columns. The two storey, five bay flank wall is plain except for tall, arched recesses at each end. A comparison with the plan (drawing [21]) shows the semicircular porch but not the pairs of Ionic columms on each side.

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Drawing

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