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Reference number

SM 31/4/25

Purpose

[191] Preliminary design and working drawing for the Breakfast Room, 2 August 1801

Aspect

Wall elevation and details (verso, pencil) small plan

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

labelled Marble Tops to / Bookcases, q[uer]Y Pro. 18 to reuse / large part / folio / instead / of putting / them in / the cases on the / side of next door / onto Breakfast Room, bit: re. Walls, Breakt. Room, door into Eating, face of Bookcases Wall line, Drawing (twice), Shuts: Panel, Shuts, Spring of Semicir: window in Library determines this, 6 Inches, Cornice over Bookcases full size, Recess (twice), Proj: of Cor, 1A. between / walls to finish / at 13:9, Plan of / archivolts / full size and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 2 August 1801
    Aug: 2d: 1801

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen and pencil on wove paper (696 x 542)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane

Watermark

WL 1794

Literature

B. De Divitiis, 'New Drawings for the interiors of the Breakfast Room and Library at Pitzhanger Manor', Architectural History Vol 48, 2005, p.164

Level

Drawing

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