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Reference number

SM volume 41/64 recto

Purpose

[50] Record copy of designs for details of cornices, architraves and other mouldings

Aspect

Admirals Room / The same Cornice as / in the Chamber Story / with this Frame on / the Cieling, Cornice to the Small / Rooms in West Front / Hall floor / Mezzanine & / Chamber Story, Architrave to doors & Windows to the / Admirals Room - Chamber in N.W. / Corner & the two dressing Rooms between, Architrave to doors & Windows / of the Mezzanine & Chamber / Storys, Base & Surbase Moldings to the same / Rooms as the above Architrave and Base Moldings - Mezzanine Story

Scale

1/3 Size

Inscribed

as above and [Tendring] Hall

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and pink wash on laid paper (364 x 244) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture ' SM volume 41

Hand

John Sanders (pupil, 1 September 1784-90)

Watermark

fleur-de-lis

Notes

The rope-like, beaded spiral moulding to the 'frame on the ceiling' in the 'Admirals Room' has a faintly nautical suggesiton about it.

SM volume 41/61 verso, SM volume 41/62 recto, SM volume 41/62 verso, SM volume 41/63 recto, SM volume 41/63 verso and SM volume 41/64 recto are all record copies of designs for which the original drawings have mosty not survived.

Level

Drawing

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