[2] Record copy of design for gate and lodges, 1781

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Hamels Park, Hertfordshire: designs for gateway and lodges 1781, alterations to offices, 1787, hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 1793 and unexecuted scheme for estate housing, 1784 for the Hon. Philip Yorke later 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (7)
    - Working drawing and record copy of design for gate and lodges, 1781 (2)

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Reference number

SM volume 41/42 recto

Purpose

[2] Record copy of design for gate and lodges, 1781

Aspect

Plan of two floors and front and back elevation, without the lamp holders, presumably a neat copy after drawing 1 or a lost original

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 in to 1 ft

Signed and dated

1781
datable to 1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, grey, sepia and blue washes, shaded, some watercolour technique on laid paper (364 x 244)

Hand

Possibly MALTON, Thomas, the younger (1748--1804), draughtsman
Except for the sketch details of lamp holders on drawing 1, the drawings are not by Soane. Both drawings are in the same hand. See Notes below on Thomas Malton (1752-1804)

Watermark

T French

Literature

P.du Prey, John Soane: the making of an architect, 1982, pp.251-2,255-6,258,264,379 fn.24 (references to SM MSS); D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed. 1996, p.119; M.Richardson and M.Stevens (eds) , John Soane architect: master of space and light, 1999, catalogue 38; P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.165

Level

Drawing

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