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Reference number

SM 80/1/49

Purpose

[2] Working drawing, Entablature Eating Room and Breakfast Room, Plans of Hall Floor and One pair Floor, 21 May 1789

Aspect

Details of Door Entablature for the Eating Room & Breakfast Room (verso) plans of Hall Floor and One pair Floor of the new Tower

Scale

(recto) full size, (verso) bar scale

Inscribed

as above, Sir Bourcher Wrey Bart, Cornice & Frieze / to be of Plaister, line of Frieze and Line of Wall (verso) rooms labelled: Best Stair Case, Sir Bouchier's Dressing Room, Wall line of North Front, Servants Hall, Butlers Pantry, Window in the / middle of Room, Plate Room, Water Closet, top of wall below and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 21 May 1789
    (recto and verso) Copy May 21st 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and light red wash (verso: pen, light red, sepia and yellow washes), pricked for transfer on cartridge paper (502 x 557)

Hand

Soane Office, draughtsman
Soane office (? William Lodder (1757-1827), assistant 1789-1796)

Level

Drawing

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