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Reference number

SM volume 57/35

Purpose

[4] Two variant part-elevations/sections of south wall and part-plans of east and central bays, April/May 1787

Aspect

Two variant part-elevations/sections of south wall and part-plans of east and central bays; the topmost elevation/section almost identical to to drawing 1 and the lower to drawing 2 but both drawn to a slightly larger scale

Scale

to a slightly larger scale than drawings 1-3

Inscribed

doors labelled D (five times) and one also New Sit:[uation]

Signed and dated

  • April 1787 - May 1787
    datable to April/May 1787 (see notes in group folder)

Medium and dimensions

brown pen on laid paper (185 x 296) Drawings 1-6 are on the same type of thin laid paper, each with three or four fold marks. All of the drawings are pasted into an album with (blue) sugar paper leaves (volume 57)

Hand

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

Watermark

not available (affixed at corners and edges)

Literature

For further reading see J. Lever, 'The Soane-Dance collaboration, 1771-1799', Architectural History: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, volume 53, pp.163-190

Level

Drawing

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