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Reference number

SM 81/1/70

Purpose

[2] Working drawing for a music room, December 1784

Aspect

Elevation and full size details for chimney-piece and (verso) sketch detail of slab 2' : 6" high and note: Marble Covings / Iron hearth

Scale

1 inch to 1 foot (approximately) and full size

Inscribed

as above, Willm Windham Esqr, Entablature full size, Flutes, Plan, Line of Tablet B, Line of Frieze, Projection of Cornice, (Soane) The Slab to extend ¼ of an / inch on each side beyond / the Circular Pilaster, A B (twice) C, The whole to be white Marble and some dimensions given Verso, (clerk ?) Mr Windham / Chimney piece & Moldings at / full Size, Wm Windham Esq / Chimney peice (sic) for Bungay / 1785, (bottom line of an address) Westmr

Signed and dated

  • December 1784
    Decr 1784

Medium and dimensions

Pen and sepia wash, pencil, shaded, (reeded detail) pricked for transfer on thick laid paper with five fold marks (587 x 485)

Hand

Sanders, John (1768--1826) - Library - Catalogs, draughtsman
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90) with notes by Soane
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
John Sanders (pupil 1784-90) with notes by Soane

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.13-16,18-19 (reproduces Note Book sketches); D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd edition, 1996, p.124, plates 64-5; P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.170; N.Pevsner and B.Wilson, Norfolk 2: north-west and south, 2nd ed., 1999, pp.315-16

Level

Drawing

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