[27] Presentation drawing of the library showing a starfish ceiling on a square plan, 1803

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  - Cricket Lodge, Cricket St Thomas, Somerset: (executed) portico and entrance front, chimney-pieces and interior mouldings, alterations to the kitchen and barn, large north addition, drawing room addition, library, kitchen, granary and pigeon house for Admiral Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport, 1787-1790, 1801-1807 (39)
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SM 4/5/1

Purpose

[27] Presentation drawing of the library showing a starfish ceiling on a square plan, 1803

Aspect

Interior perspective

Inscribed

The Viscount Bridport, Sectional view of the Library at Cricket Lodge near Chard 1803

Signed and dated

1803
as above, 1803

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen and coloured washes on wove paper (718 x 405)

Hand

Soane office

Watermark

Hayes & Wise

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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