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Reference number

SM 28/5/1

Purpose

[2] Variant scheme A, 1785

Aspect

Plan of the Principal Floor, A

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to one foot

Inscribed

as above, additional rooms labelled (Soane) : Library, Vestibule, Eating Room, Withdrawing Room; existing rooms labelled: Anti-Room and Breakfast:g / Room, Best Staircase, Water Closet, Ale & Cyders / Cellar, Passage, Servants Hall, Butler, Back Stairs, Housekeepers Apartment, Passage, Wine Cellar, Small beer / Cellar, and Kitchen with Larder, and dimensions given; (Sanders) George Smith Esqre / Piercefield; (added more recently in pencil) Tudor fireplace / 1553 and (bottom right-hand side) G Smith (?) bought /1784

Signed and dated

  • 1785
    (Bailey) 1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and pink washes, partly pricked for transfer, within double-ruled and black wash border on laid paper with one fold mark (442 x 557)

Hand

SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837), architect
Soane, minor inscriptions by John Sanders (pupil 1 September 1784-90)
Sanders, John (1768--1826) - Library - Catalogs, draughtsman
Soane, minor inscriptions by John Sanders (pupil 1 September 1784-90)

Watermark

J Whatman, fleur-de-lis above cartouche with bar and below, ornate W

Level

Drawing

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