[1] Design for a bridge, March 1785

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  - Solihull, Warwickshire: design for a bridge for William Moland, 1785 (1)

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Reference number

SM 79/1/1

Purpose

[1] Design for a bridge, March 1785

Aspect

The Plan of the Superstructure and elevation; (verso, pencil) plan, elevation and perspective of an unidentified house with a crow-step gable to the right, castellations to the centre double bay, and a plain gable to the left

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, Flood, The Common Level of Water, 21^ft 0ⁱⁿ, 10^" 0^', Willm Moland Esq. (verso) Front Hall, Stairs, illegible, 2.1, 12.8, 1:8.5

Signed and dated

12 March 1785
Margaret Street. March 1785 (datable to 12 March 1785, see Notes below)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia and grey washes, pencil additions, within double ruled border on laid paper (292 x 469)

Hand

John Sanders (pupil 1784-1790)

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

V. Morton and B. Davies, Springfield Hall - a country house in Knowle, Knowle History Society, 2010, p.20
Photograph of bridge, 1904 (copy in SM information file)
P. Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, 1999, p.185

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Drawing

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