[8] Designs for ceiling and wall to a larger scale

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - 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/B32

Purpose

[8] Designs for ceiling and wall to a larger scale

Aspect

Part of the Plan shewing the Cieling and Part of the [wall] Section on the Line L - M

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

As above, The Marquis of Buckingham, Design for part of the Gothic Library at Stowe and N^o 6

Signed and dated

15/03/1805
Lincolns Inn Fields March 15^th1805

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, sepia and pink washes, shaded with triple ruled and black wash border on wove paper, partly pricked for transfer (705 x 496)

Hand

The 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

Seward's greater experience probably shows itself here. The detailing for the panelling flanking the fire-place is strong but lean and echoes the ornament for the ceiling.

Level

Drawing

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