[11] Sections on the lines L M and N O

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B46

Purpose

[11] Sections on the lines L M and N O

Aspect

Section on the Line L M showing the chimney-piece wall and Section on the Line N O showing the end (window) wall

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

The Marquis of Buckingham, Design for parts of the Gothic Library at Stowe, N^o 3

Signed and dated

15/03/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields March 15^t^h: 1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, pink and blue washes, shaded with triple ruled and black wash border on wove paper (704 x 450)

Hand

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

Notes

This drawing was probably made by Malton it seems to be in his hand. He has added faces to to some of the arched compartments on the left-hand wall side. The drawing shows the window wall and the chimney-piece wall

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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