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  • image Image 1 for SM 8/3/13 recto and verso
  • image Image 2 for SM 8/3/13 recto and verso
  • image Image 1 for SM 8/3/13 recto and verso
  • image Image 2 for SM 8/3/13 recto and verso

Reference number

SM 8/3/13 recto and verso

Purpose

[6] Copy of design for hothouses and gardeners' cottage, 25 August 1795

Aspect

Elevation & Sections of the Hothouses and Gardeners House at Hammells Herts and (verso) Plan of the Hothouses at Hammells Herts and plan of upper floor of gardeners' house

Scale

(recto) bar scale of 1/10 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above and (verso) some dimensions given varying slightly from those of drawing 4

Signed and dated

  • 25 August 1795
    Copy Lincolns Inn Fields Augst 25th 1795

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, sepia, warm brown, blue, yellow and green washes, (verso) pen, sepia and light red washes, pencil on laid paper with four fold marks (300 x 489), red sealing wax on bottom right-hand corner of recto, top left-hand corner with recent repair

Hand

Henry Joseph Good (1775 - 1857), draughtsman
An entry in the relevant SM Day Book has 'Goode' (sic) that is Joseph Henry Good (pupil 11 July 1795-1800)

Watermark

J Larking

Literature

D.Stroud, Sir John Soane, architect, 2nd ed. 1996, p.119: P.Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.165

Level

Drawing

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