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  • image SM volume 80/11 verso-12

Reference number

SM volume 80/11 verso-12

Purpose

[6g] Rough plans for alterations and additions extracted from Downhill note/sketchbook, 27 July - 2 September 1780

Aspect

f.11 verso and f.12 recto. Rough but neat part-plan showing the existing stair with Soane's proposed WCs and extending northwards a new west wing that includes a room, 36.0 by 24.0 feet with wide semicircular alcoves at each end (56 feet total length) and windows on one side only; with 2 sections showing the internal decoration, labelled door

Scale

1/16 in to 1ft

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

  • 27 July 1780 - 2 September 1780
    (notebook cover) SAT. JULY 27 TO / SAT. SEPT 2

Medium and dimensions

Pen unless pencil stated on laid paper, 47 leaves (sic, one missing) stitched into stout (buff coloured) paper covers 183 x 118

Hand

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

Literature

P.du Prey, 'Je n'oublieray jamais: John Soane and Downhill', Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, XXI Noas 3&4, 1978, pp.26-36

Level

Drawing

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