[10] Design for ceiling

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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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  - Stowe, Buckinghamshire: design for library for 1st Marquis of Buckingham, 1805-6 and later unexecuted designs (80)
    - Library
      - Designs for ceiling and walls of library

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B31

Purpose

[10] Design for ceiling

Aspect

Plan pf a Quarter of the Ceiling of the New Library and details of profiles

Scale

full size

Inscribed

as above, The Marquis of Buckingham Stowe, Plan above the Capital Showing the Spring , line of ----, I, II, III, A, Impost Molding, Wood Bead, Impost Moldg, Plain Sunk Pannel and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

08/11/1805
Nov. 8 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, some pencil, partly pricked for transfer, on stout wove paper (525 x 740)

Hand

The office Day Book for 15 March 1805 has Malton and Seward working on drawings for Stowe, that is Charles Malton (1788-?, pupil February 1802 - December 1809) and Henry Hake Seward (1778-1848, pupil and assistant May 1794 - September 1808)

Notes

Slight detail of ceiling on verso

Level

Drawing

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