[16] Preliminary presentation drawing of the water reservoir, 17 January 1800

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
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  - Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire: alterations to house and estate buildings for Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke, 1790-1794; presentation drawing 1800; surveys 1818 (70)
    - Estate buildings, 1792-1794 (42)
      - Preliminary design, working drawing and preliminary presentation drawing for a water reservoir, or 'Castello d'Acqua', 1793 and 1800 (3)

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SM volume 69/53

Purpose

[16] Preliminary presentation drawing of the water reservoir, 17 January 1800

Aspect

Topographical perspective

Signed and dated

17 January 1800
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Medium and dimensions

Pencil and wash within single-ruled pencil border on laid paper (369 x 234)

Hand

Gandy, Joseph Michael (1771--1843), draughtsman
Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843)

Watermark

Buttanshaw 1794

Notes

Gandy made this drawing in his sketchbook several years after the building was completed. The Castello d'acqua was built of rendered brick by Thomas Poynder, bricklayer, and John Bayley, plasterer. A model of the 'Castello d'Acqua' is at the Soane Museum (1148 M), dividing vertically to show the building in section 'together with arrangements for introducing the water pipes form the passageway below' (J. Wilton-Ely, p.13).

The design included in Soane's Sketches in Architecture, 1793 (plates 41 and 42) has a slightly variant design, with round-headed alcoves on each of the six sides (rather than three) and with strigillation on the drum that supports the dome. Just as in drawing 16, the published perspective shows the building surrounded by trees.

Literature

J. Wilton-Ely, 'The Architectural Models of Sir John Soane: A Catalogue', Architectural History, Vol.12 (1969), p. 13;

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