Scale
(71-72) bar scales of 3½ inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
71 3 Risers only = 18 inches, floor of office, Coping of Mr Wrights house, (pencil) The Fable of the Ass (one of several of Aesop's fables involving an ass?) and dimensions given
72 dimensions given
Signed and dated
- (71) 12 April 1818 (72) L.I.F. 12th April 1818
Medium and dimensions
(71) Pen, raw umber, dark blue, warm sepia, light blue, green and pink washes, pencil, shaded, with double ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (607 x 812) (72) pen, raw umber, dark blue, warm sepia, grey-blue, light blue and pink washes, shaded, with double ruled and sepia wash border on wove paper (605 x 812)
Hand
Soane office
Watermark
(71-72) J Whatman 1816
Notes
Design M repeats the three storey, five bay with large round-headed windows elevation introduced in drawing 58 ('Design No 3' presented to the Committee for Building' on 29 January). However, some ornament has been added: the entrances on the end bays are now pedimented, the giant pilasters have floreated capitals, the frieze has a Greek key moulding, the roofline has the addition of an acroterion over the left-hand bay and an alternative four-stage cresting over the right-hand bay. This consists of a pineapple or pine cone on a pedestal supported by an eight-sided domed antefix on a stepped base. For further designs for this vertical feature see drawings 78 and 79 where it is labelled 'Finial'. The five bay side elevation (drawing 72) shares the same frieze and the giant pilasters are pedimented so as to emphasise the end bays.
Level
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