[90] Design for finishings to the drawing room, 21 October 1790

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  - Bentley Priory, Harrow, London: (executed) two additions, outbuildings and an entrance hall addition for John James Hamilton, later 9th Earl, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, 1788-1799, 1805 (178)
    - Designs for finishings to the drawing room, 16-21 October 1790 (3)

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SM 30/2/76

Purpose

[90] Design for finishings to the drawing room, 21 October 1790

Aspect

Plan and laid-out wall elevations

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Finishings to Drawing Room, The Marquiss of Abercorn, wall, plan lettered A to C corresponding to key: AAA meeting rails one frame to throw up into the head / The windows are to be splayed all round observing / that the heads are as high as the brickwork and lintels / will permit // The height of the architraves to the windows determines / the height of the architraves to the doors / The pannells over the doors are to be left as described / in the section of the Eating Room / The dado is to be 2 feet 6 high; the plinths / to range with the plain parts under the sashes // B Shutters to be cut at this rail / B The beads on the margins of the shutters to range with / the bars of the sashes C and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

21 October 1790
Oct^r21^st1790

Medium and dimensions

pen and grey, pink and blue washes, pencil, on laid paper (658 x 575)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman
Soane office

Level

Drawing

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